Say I have the following: Class myclass { public string stra ="", strb = "" myclass(String a, String b){stra=a;strb=b} } //then in the app I want to do: myclass myclassinst1 = new myclass("blah","xxxx"); myclass myclassinst2 = new myclass("blah2","yyyy"); myclass myclassinst3 = new myclass("blah3","zzzz"); list <myclass> mylist = new ArrayList<myclass>(); mylist.add(myclassinst1 ); mylist.add(myclassinst2 ); mylist.add(myclassinst3 ); //How would I then convert that to a String[] Array of all the stra elements without using a loop. //eg: String[] strarr_a = mylist.toarray(myclass.stra); String[] strarr_b = mylist.toarray(myclass.strb); //instead of having to do String[] strarr_a = new String[mylist.size()]; String[] strarr_b = new String[mylist.size()]; for (int i=0;i<mylist.size();i++) { strarr_a[i] = mylist.get(i).stra; strarr_b[i] = mylist.get(i).strb; }