Comparing strings held within an object

[jiraiya]

Hi everyone,

I have a single string - let's call it string A.
I have an ArrayList of objects.
Each object contains three strings.

I want to iterate through the ArrayList of objects and check if any of the strings contained within the objects are the same as string A. Furthermore, I only want to compare the third string in each object with string A.

Basically, I am having problems with the syntax for a string contained in an object, and any help would be great.

Here's the part of code I'm having trouble with:

while( iterator.hasNext() )
{
    if( iterator.string3.equals( stringA ) )
    {
                
    }
}

If anyone could help me with this approach, or give me any ideas for a different approach, that would be a big help.

Thanks!

[jiraiya]

Hi everyone,

I have a single string - let's call it string A.
I have an ArrayList of objects.
Each object contains three strings.

I want to iterate through the ArrayList of objects and check if any of the strings contained within the objects are the same as string A. Furthermore, I only want to compare the third string in each object with string A.

Basically, I am having problems with the syntax for a string contained in an object, and any help would be great.

Here's the part of code I'm having trouble with:

while( iterator.hasNext() )
{
    if( iterator.string3.equals( stringA ) )
    {
                
    }
}

If anyone could help me with this approach, or give me any ideas for a different approach, that would be a big help.

Thanks!

Should I just break this down into 2 steps?

I.e. have an outer loop going through the objects and an inner loop going through the strings?

[stultuske]

that might be the best, you'll have to do that anyway, since you say there are three String objects in every element in the ArrayList

[Ezzaral]

It looks like you're having trouble with your iterator. To access the next object you need

while( iterator.hasNext() )
{
    YourObjectType nextObj = (YourObjectType)iterator.next();
    if( nextObj.string3.equals( stringA ) )
    {
                
    }
}

Where "YourObjectType" is of course whatever object you're using that contained the strings.

[jiraiya]

Thanks for your help guys!