Thread: Avoiding concurrent modification exception?

Hi all.

I'm wanting to modify an array while it is In use but this throws the exception in the title above. So what is the best way around this? Cloning the array? If I clone the array what is the best way of keeping the clone up to date with each change made?

What I'm trying to do is add a string and check if the string exists within the array, if it doesn't exists then add it to the same array, but I can not modify the current array which I am iterating through.

Hopefully I made this clear.

Any code examples would be greatly Appreciated thanks.

What I'm trying to do is read through a text file and look for titles then add them to an array just the once. The titles are repeated multiple times in the text file, so I'm trying to just add them to the array once so I have a list of the titles in the order that I find them within the array ready to be output into another text file.

I have been messing about with code but don't really have anything solid worth posting yet as I'm not really sure of the best way to approach this.

This seems to work for me so far:

	private static void  TitleCheck(String n){
		boolean found = false;
		String title = null;
		int pos;
		pos = n.indexOf(':');
		if(pos != -1){			
				title = n.substring(0,pos);
				if(Titles.size()==0){
					Titles.add(title);
				}
 
				for(String i:Titles){
 
					if(i.equals(title)){
						found = true;
						break;
					}							
				}
			}
 
		if (found ==false && pos !=-1){
			Titles.add(title);
 
		}
	}

Have not really tested it properly but delivering the results I was wanting, so far.
I will have a look at the method you suggested, as this probably is not the best way of doing things. Any other tips/code improvements are welcome, as the way Im doing things might not be the best practice. Thanks for the help so far!