comparing objects in an ArrayList

Hi everyone!

I have an ArrayList of objects that have String parts. For example, the list contains Courses that have String names so it would be like course1.name

I need to check that a different Course being added to the list does not have the same name as one of the other courses already in the list. I tried using a for loop with Iterator but I can't get it to compare the names of the course because I can't do it.next().name

Is there a way to access the variables inside the object using a for loop?

My code is like this:

ArrayList<Course> a = new ArrayList<Course>();

a.add(aCourse);

for(Iterator it = a.iterator(); it.hasNext();)

{

if aCourse.name.compareTo(it.Next().name)) == 0)

... //rest of loop

}

Thanks.

[810 byte] By [lawngnomeninjaa] at [2007-11-26 19:05:49]