casting Arrays.asList causing exception: java.util.Arrays$ArrayList cannot be cast to java.util.ArrayList

Question

I\'m new to Java and am trying to understand why the first code snippet doesn\'t cause this exception but the second one does. Since a string array is passed into Arrays.as

Answer 1

No need to cast manually. This simple code may help you,

List stuff = new ArrayList();
String line = "a,b,cdef,g";
String delim = ",";
stuff.addAll(Arrays.asList(line.split(delim)));