Please Help, should be working but isn't

[EricUnreal]

My final is tommorrow and i'm having trouble with some questions that are similar to those that will be on the exam. Here's what i have:


I have to insert a word into the list while maintaining alphabetical order. What i'm trying to do is insert the word, then just re-sort the list.

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class WordList
{
private ArrayList<String> list;

public WordList()
{
list = new ArrayList<String>();
getData();
}
public void addWord(String aWord)
{
list.add(aWord);
for (int current=0; current<list.length; current++) {
int lowPos = current;
for(int i=current; i<list.length; i++) {
if( list[i].compareTo(list[lowPos])<0 ) {
lowPos = i;
}
}
String temp = list[current];
list[current] = list[lowPos];
list[lowPos] = temp;
}
}
}

[EricUnreal]

To clarify, it's giving me an error at list.length; which i dont think it should because it is an ArrayList

[Tony]

there is no such field in ArrayList

[EricUnreal]

Tony @ Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:49 pm wrote:

there is no such field in ArrayList

Well what could I use instead? or even in an Array.

[Tony]

Perhaps you'll find one of the available methods to be suitable? http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/ArrayList.html