An elegant way of initialising an empty String array in Java

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In the current code base that I'm working on I find myself needing to initialise many empty String[] of different lengths.

As of now, they are always initialised in the following way:

String[] a = new String[]{"","","","","","","","",""} // etc...

Although this is a simple one line solution, my personal preference is that it's rather ugly.

I was just wondering if anyone is aware of any existing API/Utility that offers a method where an array of empty strings can be initialised more elegantly. I was thinking something along the lines of:

StringUtils.*initialiseEmptyArray*(int size);

Does anyone know of any such method?

I can always write my own if need be, just didn't want to re-invent the wheel if its already been done.

Thanks

Rohit Jain · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-21 20:22:35Z

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You can use Arrays.fill method: -

Arrays.fill(a, "");

answered Jan 21, 2013 at 20:22

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Reimeus · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-26 12:29:07Z

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Using Arrays.fill:

String[] a = new String[9];
Arrays.fill(a, "");

edited Oct 26, 2015 at 12:29

answered Jan 21, 2013 at 20:23

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