Java ArrayList Index

Question

int[] alist = new int [3]; alist.add("apple"); alist.add("banana"); alist.add("orange"); 

Say that I want to use the second item in the ArrayList. What is the coding in order to get the following output?

output:

banana

Answer 1

You have ArrayList all wrong,

• You can't have an integer array and assign a string value.
• You cannot do a add() method in an array

Rather do this:

List<String> alist = new ArrayList<String>(); alist.add("apple"); alist.add("banana"); alist.add("orange");  String value = alist.get(1); //returns the 2nd item from list, in this case "banana" 

Indexing is counted from 0 to N-1 where N is size() of list.