Converting ArrayList of Characters to a String?

Question

How to convert an ArrayList to a String in Java? The toString method returns it as [a,b,c] string - I wa

Answer 1

a tiny complement to @waggledans 's answer

a) List of Character objects to String :

String str = chars.stream().map(e->e.toString()).collect(Collectors.joining());

which e->e.toString() can be replaced by Object::toString

String str = chars.stream().map(Object::toString).collect(Collectors.joining());