Question

I am trying to create an array with about 100 names. I want the names to be the ones I have selected not randomly generated ones. So each position of the Array will hold a string of a name. Is there an easier way to do this than Array[1] = "name; Array[2] = "name"; ? The way I was thinking was to use a for loop to get the information from a data file or a text file but I have no idea how to do that. What is the easiest way to accomplish this task?

Answer 1

If you have a file with one name by line:

public static String[] getArrayStringRandom() {
    try {
        List<String> list = new LinkedList<String>();
        FileReader fileReader = new FileReader("file.txt");
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
        for (String name; (name = in.readLine()) != null;) {
            list.add(name);
        }
        in.close();
        fileReader.close();
        // Collections.shuffle(list); // Random permutes
        return list.toArray(new String[0]);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}