something like equalsIgnoreCase while using indexOf

Question

I am using this code, to get the index of a String in an Array.

int n = Arrays.asList(Names).indexOf(textBox.getText());

The problem here i

Answer 1

You can extend ArrayList in this way

    public class StringArrayList extends ArrayList {
        @Override
        public boolean contains(Object o) {
            String paramStr = (String)o;
            for (String s : this) {
                if (paramStr.equalsIgnoreCase(s)) return true;
            }
            return false;
        }

        public int indexOf(Object o) {
            String paramStr = (String)o;
            int index = 0;
            for (String s : this) {
                if (paramStr.equalsIgnoreCase(s)) return index;
                index++;
            }
            return -1;
        }
    }

Eventually :

int n = new StringArrayList(Arrays.asList(Names)).indexOf(textBox.getText());