Question

I have the following

 String[] temp;

which returns

red
blue
green

I would like to add the string array into a collection obejct like HashMap so that I could retrieve values in any class like

HashMap hash = New HashMap();
hash.get("red");
hash.get("blue");
hash.get("green");

How can I do this?

Thanks

Update 1

     String str = "red,blue,green";
        String[] temp;
        String delimiter = ",";
        temp = str.split(delimiter);
for (int i = 0; i < temp.length; i++) {
System.out.println(temp[i]);
}

With the above code, I would like to retrieve values based on values in array. E.g. I would like to get the values in from another class by calling hash.get(“One”), which would return red, hash.get(“Two”) which would return blue and so forth.

Answer 1

Map<String, String> hash = new HashMap<String, String>();    
for(i = 0 ; i < temp.length(); i++)
{
   hash.put(temp[i], temp[i]);
}

Then you can retrieve from map
hash.get (temp[i]);