[java] question about vectors

Original Post

Mar 7, 2005 at 9:33 PM

I know that vectors have the ability to expand their size. Am I supposed to call a special add command to increase the size of a vector? In other words, can I tell the vector to insert some object at a specific location, and if the vector is not already that big, it will automatically stretch? hope that makes sense, thanks everyone

Zahlman

Mar 7, 2005 at 9:59 PM

All you need to know.

You can insert anywhere within the vector, from 'at the beginning' to 'at the end'. Items will get pushed back to make room for the insertion (e.g. if you insert at the beginning, then everything is shifted; if you insert at the end, then it just gets tacked on to the end and nothing else moves). The vector will resize itself as needed.

OrangyTang

Mar 8, 2005 at 7:34 AM

Incidentally, Vector is depreciated - you should be using ArrayList instead (functionally the same, but unsyncronised). If you need a thread-safe ArrayList then you can wrap it in a thread-safe interface, which is described in the ArrayList docs.

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