Print array without brackets and commas

Question

I\'m porting a Hangman game to Android and have met a few problems. The original Java program used the console, so now I have to somehow beautify the output so that it fits

Answer 1

You can use join method from android.text.TextUtils class like:

TextUtils.join("",array);

Answer 2

Replace the brackets and commas with empty space.

String formattedString = myArrayList.toString()
    .replace(",", "")  //remove the commas
    .replace("[", "")  //remove the right bracket
    .replace("]", "")  //remove the left bracket
    .trim();           //remove trailing spaces from partially initialized arrays

Answer 3

Basically, don't use ArrayList.toString() - build the string up for yourself. For example:

StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
for (String value : publicArray) {
    builder.append(value);
}
String text = builder.toString();

(Personally I wouldn't call the variable publicArray when it's not actually an array, by the way.)

Answer 4

I have used Arrays.toString(array_name).replace("[","").replace("]","").replace(", ",""); as I have seen it from some of the comments above, but also i added an additional space character after the comma (the part .replace(", ","")), because while I was printing out each value in a new line, there was still the space character shifting the words. It solved my problem.

Answer 5

If you use Java8 or above, you can use with stream() with native.

publicArray.stream()
        .map(Object::toString)
        .collect(Collectors.joining(" "));

References

• Use Java 8 Language Features
• JavaDoc StringJoiner
• Joining Objects into a String with Java 8 Stream API

Answer 6

the most simple solution for removing the brackets is,

1.convert the arraylist into string with .toString() method.

2.use String.substring(1,strLen-1).(where strLen is the length of string after conversion from arraylist).

3.Hurraaah..the result string is your string with removed brackets.

hope this is useful...:-)