How to search for a string in an arraylist

Question

I want to search for a string in an arraylist. My ArrayList contains:

ArrayList <String> list = new ArrayList();  list.add("behold"); list.add("bend"); list.add("bet"); list.add("bear"); list.add("beat"); list.add("become"); list.add("begin"); 

Now I want to search for "bea" and it should return a list containing "bear" and "beat". How can I implement it?

Answer 1

 List <String> list = new ArrayList();              list.add("behold");             list.add("bend");             list.add("bet");             list.add("bear");             list.add("beat");             list.add("become");             list.add("begin");             List <String> listClone = new ArrayList<String>();             for (String string : list) {                if(string.matches("(?i)(bea).*")){                    listClone.add(string);                }            }         System.out.println(listClone);