Converting List to String[] in Java

Question

How do I convert a list of String into an array? The following code returns an error.

public static void main(String[] args) {
    List strlist         


        

Answer 1

List.toArray() necessarily returns an array of Object. To get an array of String, you need to use the casting syntax:

String[] strarray = strlist.toArray(new String[0]);

See the javadoc for java.util.List for more.