java arraylist tostring,如何将arrayList.toString（）转换为实际的arraylist

In my software, since there is no Array data type in SQLite, I saved my ArrayList as a String. Now I need to use my array and want to convert it back to an ArrayList. How can I do it?

Here an example :

ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

list.add("name1");

list.add("name2");

list.add("name3");

list.add("name4");

list.add("name5");

list.add("name6");

String newList = list.toString();

System.out.println(newList);

Result: [name1, name2, name3, name4, name5, name6]

So now how can I convert this into an ArrayList?

解决方案

I believe this should work :

Arrays.asList(newList.substring(1, newList.length() - 1).replaceAll("\\s", "").split(","));

Take the string, remove the first and last bracket.

Remove each spaces.

Split by comma as delimiter, collect as list.

Note that if really you have to do this for a project, then there is something wrong in your code design. However, if this is just for curiosity purpose then this solution would work.

After testing

ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

list.add("name1");

list.add("name2");

list.add("name3");

list.add("name4");

list.add("name5");

list.add("name6");

String newList = list.toString();

List myList = Arrays.asList(newList.substring(1, newList.length() - 1).replaceAll("\\s", "").split(","));

System.out.println(myList);

would compile properly and print :

[name1, name2, name3, name4, name5, name6]

Edit

As per your comments, if really you want your variable to be an ArrayList instance then you could pass the list to ArrayList constructor :

ArrayList myList = new ArrayList(Arrays.asList(newList.substring(1, newList.length() - 1).replaceAll("\\s", "").split(",")));

You can't cast directly as Arrays.asList use it own builtin java.util.Arrays$ArrayList class.