Accessing a list iniside a list

[Rabbit3cat]

Hi i have a list of lists containing strings, and i want to seperate them. I have written some code to access the inner lists


Iterator it = newList.iterator();
while(it.hasNext()){
Object f = it.next();

}

What i want to do now is store each object f as a seperate list. Does anybody know how to do this.
Thanks

[BigDog]

Do you want to store each objct f AS a seperate list or store each f in a seperate list?

Those would be decidedly different questions.


*corrected bad english*

[Rabbit3cat]

sorry i want to store each f object in a seperate list. For example
List Before = [[hello, one, two], [six, go, to, nine],[tree, light, seven]]

each inner list (f) is to be stored in a seperate list so the result would be:
list1 [hello, one, two]
list2 [six, go,to,nine]
list3 [tree,light,seven]

Sorry if that was unclear the first time!

[chazzy]

would an array suffice for this?

[Rabbit3cat]

Yes i am actually trying to implement it as an array now but not having any luck. The reason i need to seperate the lists is because i need to iterate through the words in each list and compare each word in each list to a given string. I thought list would be the best way to seperate them but if you know a way to do it using arrays i would be very glad to hear it!

[Cytael]

2-D array with a double for loop to iterate would seem to be the easy way, especially if you know the size of the lists before-hand:

String[][] ListBefore;
int constraint1 = 3, contraint2 = 3;
for(int i=0; i<constraint1; i++)
{
for(int j=0; i<constraint2; j++)
{
if(ListBefore[i][j].equals("check string"))
{
//do something
}
}
}

[Rabbit3cat]

Great got that working, thanks for all the help!