Java, printing arrays

As I keep forgetting, this post is to remind me that Java Java doesn’t have a pretty toString() for arrays objects, and it does for Lists.

import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class ListsExample {
    public static void main (String args[]) {
        // as an array
        String[] list1 = {"a","b","c"};
        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(list1));
        
        // as an List provided by Arrays
        List<String> list2 = Arrays.asList("d", "e", "f");
        System.out.println(list2);

        // as an implementation of the interface List
        // ArrayList (could also be LinkedList, Vector, etc)
        List<String> list3 = new ArrayList<String>();
        list3.add("g");
        list3.add("h");
        list3.add("i");
        System.out.println(list3);
    }
}

The output is:

[a, b, c]
[d, e, f]
[g, h, i]