Question

I’m looking this site.
I can’t understand what this means:

private ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> data;

Please, explain this to me.

Thanks

Answer 1

Those are html entities:

&lt; -> <
&gt; -> >

Those characters have to be escaped in html because they are used to start and end html tags:

<p>, <b>, etc.

So the string you asked about, with html entities replaced, is:

Private ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> data;

Those html entities were left in the code snippet on the site you mentioned, most likely by mistake or else due to a bug in how that site escapes code snippets.