How can I generate a list or array of sequential integers in Java?

Question

Is there a short and sweet way to generate a List, or perhaps an Integer[] or int[], with sequential values from some

Answer 1

This one might works for you....

void List makeSequence(int begin, int end) {

  AtomicInteger ai=new AtomicInteger(begin);
  List ret = new ArrayList(end-begin+1);

  while ( end-->begin) {

    ret.add(ai.getAndIncrement());

  }
  return ret;  
}