Java, return if trimmed String in List contains String

Question

In Java, I want to check whether a String exists in a List myList.

Something like this:

if(myList.contains(\"A\")){
    //         


        

Answer 1

You may be able to use an approximate string matching library to do this, e.g. SecondString, but that is almost certainly overkill - just use one of the for-loop answers provided instead.