Java: How to convert String[] to List or Set [duplicate]

Question

How to convert String[] (Array) to Collection, like ArrayList or HashSet?

Answer 1

Arrays.asList() would do the trick here.

String[] words = {"ace", "boom", "crew", "dog", "eon"};     List<String> wordList = Arrays.asList(words);   

For converting to Set, you can do as below

Set<T> mySet = new HashSet<T>(Arrays.asList(words));  

Answer 2

The easiest way would be:

String[] myArray = ...; List<String> strs = Arrays.asList(myArray); 

using the handy Arrays utility class. Note, that you can even do

List<String> strs = Arrays.asList("a", "b", "c");