The Arrays class has been around since JDK 1.2, but the methods for conveniently and simply converting arrays to a readable String including relevant array content without using Arrays.asList ...

As strings (array of chars right?) need to have \0 at the end to signify the end of the string I add one to whatever the length of the string that I want to store is.

I have a file containing comma delimited strings that I've read into a string variable. I would like to be able to put this into an arraylist. Perhaps it would be easiest to read the comma ...

For large arrays, this can result in significant memory savings. Note: Do not use the _TEMPORARY_ option if you plan to use the SET routine to read values from a SAS table directly into array elements ...