Question

How can I search through an String-Array? I’ve got an dictionary app and the words are saved in a String-Array and it would be user-friendlier, if you could search for the word you want to look up, instead of looking its way to the word. Can somebody help?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can try using an ArrayList instead. Then you can see if the word is in your ‘dictionary’ by using the contains method, ex:

ArrayList <String> myDictionary = new ArrayList<String>();
myDictionary.add(new String("foo"));
myDictionary.add(new String("bar"));


...
// To check if the word exists in your dictionary.
if (myDictionary.contains(new String("word_to_look_up")))
{
}