crasherball

hi folks,

I have a tiny problem....

I have an ArrayList containing Objects of the type X (ArrayList<X> alist)

a X has a non-private String Variable - like a name

lets call it: X.name

so, what i want now, is to search the ArrayList to see if it contains a certain Object X with a String-variable 'str' that equals X.name.

I only know about the existence of the following method:

alist.contains(Object)

but obviously this method is going to compare an Object of type X with another X inside the ArrayList

but I would like to compare X.name with str

is that somehow possible in java?

of course the worst-case-scenario would be:

for (int i = 0; i < alist.size(); i++) {

if (alist.get(i).name.equals(str)) {

do xyz

}

}