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Quick Tip – How to convert a Java List to a Java String

Hello ! I’m Xavier Jouvenot and in this small post, I am going to explain how to convert a Java List<Integer> to a Java String.

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Solution

For the people who only want the solution, to quickly copy-paste it in there code, here it is 😉

List<Integer> my_list;
// some code to fill the list ...

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < my_list.size(); ++i)
{
    sb.append(my_list.get(i));
    if(i != my_list.size() - 1)
    {
        sb.append(", ");
    }
}
String s = sb.toString();

Explanation

If you read this, it may be that you want to understand how the previous solution achieve the goal of transforming the List<Integer> into a String, and this is what I am going to try to explain. 🙂

First of all, we create the list and fill it with whatever integer you want. And we create a StringBuilder which is going to help us doing the transformation.

Then, we transfer the information from the List<Integer> to the StringBuilder and format it how we want to. In our case, we are separating the each numbers of the list with a comma and a space.

Finally, we create a String with all the information we want, by using the method toString of StringBuilder.


Thank you all for reading this article, And until my next article, have a splendid day 😉

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