Adding comma separated strings to an ArrayList and vice versa

Question

How to add a comma separated string to an ArrayList? My string \"returnedItems\" could hold 1 or 20 items which I\'d like to add to my ArrayList \"selItemArrayList\".

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Answer 1

This can help:

for (String s : returnedItems.split(",")) {
    selItemArrayList.add(s.trim());
}

//Shorter and sweeter
String [] strings = returnedItems.split(",");
selItemArrayList = Arrays.asList(strings);

//The reverse....

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
Iterator iter = selItemArrayList.iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
    if (sb.length() > 0) 
        sb.append(",");
    sb.append(iter.next());
}

returnedItems = sb.toString();