String Array that contains String Arrays

Question

Hello and sorry for the noobish question. I have done a lot of search about my problem but i found nothing related to my problem.

So i have something like this:

public static String something [][] = 
{
    {"1","100"},
    {"2","1000"},
    {"3","10000"}
};

public static String somethingelse [][] = 
{
    {"1","100"},
    {"2","1000"},
    {"3","10000"}
};

public static String CATEGORIES[][][] = 
{
    something,
    somethingelse
};

How and if it is possible ofcourse can i return from the CATEGORIES[something].get(1st line) line?

I dont want to use something[0] I want to use something like this CATEGORIES.something[0] i dont know how else to explain it.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You could use a HashMap with the key-value pairs as the name of the list and an arraylist like this:

HashMap<String, ArrayList<String>> c = new HashMap<>();
ArrayList<String> s = new ArrayList<>();
s.put("HI");
s.put("HELLO");
ArrayList<String> s2 = nee ArrayList<>();
s2.put("HI Again!");
s2.put("Hello Again");
c.put("something", s);
c.put("something2", s2);

Then you can access them as

c.get("something").get(0);

Note: Sorry for the inconvenient variable names, I'm on a phone.

Answer 2

You can (but it is an awful practice) with this:

public static class Categories {
    public String something [][] = {
        {"1","100"},
        {"2","1000"},
        {"3","10000"}
    };

    public String somethingelse [][] = {
        {"1","100"},
        {"2","1000"},
        {"3","10000"}
    };
}

public static final Categories CATEGORIES = new Categories();