Output ArrayList to String without [,] (brackets) appearing

Question

OK, so I have an ArrayList that I need to return as a String. Right now I am using this approach:

List customers = new ArrayList<>();
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Answer 1

Anyone still stuck on this, try using a for-each loop.

ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<>(); // default size of 10

/*add elements to 
the ArrayList*/

for(String element: list)
System.out.println(element);

Answer 2

You can override the toString() method and represent the output in whatever format you

Answer 3

Can directly convert list/set to string and perform action on it

customers.toString().replace("[", "").replace("]", "")

Answer 4

A possible solutions is:

String account = Arrays.toString(accounts.toArray()); 
return account.substring(1,account.length()-1);

Or do you override the toString method to return the string as per you wanted.

Answer 5

You can try this.

String listAsStr = myList.toString(); // get list as string
listAsStr = listAsStr.substring(1,listAsStr.length()-1); // removing first and last bracket

This will return the string without first and last brackets.

Answer 6

If you want your output to look like: item1, item2, item3

Arrays.toString(customers.toArray()).replace('[', ' ').replace(']', ' ').trim()

If you want your output to look like: item1 item2 item3

Arrays.toString(customers.toArray()).replace('[', ' ').replace(']', ' ').replace(',', ' ').trim()