Sorting an array of strings in Java

Question

The user is allowed to play with an array of strings. They can add strings to the array, remove strings from the array, search for strings in the array, and eventually they

Answer 1

I guess the simple way of doing things really would be:

static String[] strArray;
static {
    strArray = new String[5];
    for(int i = 0, i < strArray.length; i++)
    {
        strArray[i] = "";
    }
}

And then just call

Arrays.sort(strArray);

When you want to sort it. If that doesn't work, although I think it should; your initial approach would have been the following:

    List stringList = new ArrayList();
    for(int i = 0; i < strArray.length; i++)
    {
       stringList.add(strArray[i]);
    }
    Collections.sort(stringList);
    strArray = stringList.toArray(new String[stringList.size()]);

Although it clearly doesn't seem very memory-friendly.