How to check whether an ArrayList contains an element specified in Java ?.

Program to implement how to check whether an ArrayList contains an element specified in Java.

package com.hubberspot.arraylist;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class ArrayListContainsDemo {

 public static void main(String[] args) {

  // Create a ArrayList object which can store 
  // collection of String objects 
  List< String > stringList = new ArrayList< String >();

  // Add few String objects to it
  stringList.add("Neha");
  stringList.add("Abhishek");
  stringList.add("Deepali");
  stringList.add("Snehal");
  stringList.add("Vijay");
  stringList.add("Aditya");

  // Lets create an String object and check 
  // whether ArrayList created above contains it
  String name = "Neha";

  // In order to check whether ArrayList contains an element
  // or not we use list's contains(), which 
  // Returns true if this list contains the specified element.  
  if( stringList.contains(name) ) {

   System.out.println("The list contains the element : " + name);

  }
  else {

   System.out.println("The list does not contains the element : " + name);

  }

  name = "Dhwani";

  if( stringList.contains(name) ) {

   System.out.println("The list contains the element : " + name);

  }
  else {

   System.out.println("The list does not contains the element : " + name);

  }

 }

}

Output of the program :