Converting an int array to a String array

Question

So I have this \"list\" of ints. It could be a Vector, int[], List, whatever.

My goal though is to sort the

Answer 1

Can I use a while loop instead?

@Test
public void test() {
    int[] nums = {5,1,2,11,3};

    Arrays.sort(nums);

    String[] stringNums = new String[nums.length];
    int i = 0;
    while (i < nums.length) {
        stringNums[i] = String.valueOf(nums[i++]);
    }

    Assert.assertArrayEquals(new String[]{"1","2","3","5","11"}, stringNums);
}

Using JUnit assertions.

Sorry, I'm being flippant. But saying you can't use a for loop is daft - you've got to iterate over the list somehow. If you're going to call a library method to sort it for you (cf Collections.sort()) - that will be looping somehow over the elements.