ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when using the ArrayList's iterator

Question

Right now, I have a program containing a piece of code that looks like this:

while (arrayList.iterator().hasNext()) {
     //value is equal to a String value         


        

Answer 1

Am I doing that right, as far as iterating through the Arraylist goes?

No: by calling iterator twice in each iteration, you're getting new iterators all the time.

The easiest way to write this loop is using the for-each construct:

for (String s : arrayList)
    if (s.equals(value))
        // ...

As for

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1

You just tried to get element number -1 from an array. Counting starts at zero.