Here you can find the source of toString(List> col)
public static String toString(List<?> col)
//package com.java2s; /**/*from ww w . ja v a2s . c o m*/ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; public class Main { public static String toString(List<?> col) { StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder(); buf.append("["); boolean first = true; for (Object o : col) { if (first) { first = false; } else { buf.append(", "); } buf.append(o.toString()); } buf.append("]"); return buf.toString(); } public static String toString(Map<?, ?> col) { StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder(); buf.append("["); boolean first = true; for (Map.Entry<?, ?> o : col.entrySet()) { if (first) { first = false; } else { buf.append(", "); } buf.append(o.getKey().toString()).append(" : ") .append(o.getValue().toString()); } buf.append("]"); return buf.toString(); } }