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.

package dustin.examples; import java.util.Arrays; import static ... Demonstrate attempting to get String version of array with simple toString() * call (not using Arrays class).

There are lots of methods supplied with the String class which will allow you to manipulate ... a reverse() method to return the reverse of the StringBuilder object). Arrays are sequences of values ...

Java arrays do not expand and contract ... To further confuse matters, the String class does have a length() method. The length method of the String class tells you how many elements a String contains ...