I have an ArrayList
and I want to copy it exactly. I use utility classes when possible on the assumption that someone spent some time making it correct. So naturally, I end up with the Collections
class which contains a copy method.
Suppose I have the following:
List<String> a = new ArrayList<String>();
a.add("a");
a.add("b");
a.add("c");
List<String> b = new ArrayList<String>(a.size());
Collections.copy(b,a);
This fails because basically it thinks b
isn't big enough to hold a
. Yes I know b
has size 0, but it should be big enough now shouldn't it? If I have to fill b
first, then Collections.copy()
becomes a completely useless function in my mind. So, except for programming a copy function (which I'm going to do now) is there a proper way to do this?