As noted in the comments, Java arrays employ C-like zero-based indexes and so using an index of 0 obtains the first element. /** * Extract the first element from the provided List of Strings.

So, this could be a really dumb question, but I've been searching the API's and can't find much that's working for me.I need to search a 2d array for for the index value of an element. I can't ...

This post shows readers how to create an array in Java. Including: Array Lists, multidimensional arrays, maps, and more.

J2SE 5 provided significant new language features that made Java significantly easier to use and more expressive than it had ever been. Although “big” new J2SE 5 features such as enums ...