# Having proplems with string arrays

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-proplems-with-string-arrays/21436>\
**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [May 30, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-proplems-with-string-arrays/21436 "2020-05-30T21:26:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-proplems-with-string-arrays/21436/1 "2020-05-30T21:26:57Z")

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I set my array to a size 1000000 and initialized its contents with:  
(int I=0;i\<1000000;i++) mytext[I] =" ";  
so why when I use something like:  
rec[I] = mytext[I];  
to get a temporary instance of the mytext[I] that the debugger stalls;  
I need to insert a new string into mytext and I know how to sort.  
What am I supposed to do whenever the size of my array needs to be 1000001 ?

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**Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-proplems-with-string-arrays/21436/2 "2020-05-30T22:13:47Z")

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Sounds like you are wanting a dynamic array, in that case you want an ArrayList.

[https://processing.org/reference/ArrayList.html](https://processing.org/reference/ArrayList.html)