help with looping through an ArrayList to only get specific results <p>I have a SQL query that returns a number of results (unfortunately, the number of results will vary). Currently, I am storing the results into an arrayList like so:</p> <pre><code>ArrayList allTerms = new ArrayList(); try { String selStmt = "SELECT .... "; stmt = conn.prepareStatement(selStmt); result = stmt.executeQuery(); Object result_data; while (result.next()) { term = (((result_data = result.getObject("internal_code"))==null || result.wasNull())?" ":result_data.toString()); allTerms.add(term); desc = (((result_data = result.getObject("external_representation"))==null || result.wasNull())?" ":result_data.toString()); allTerms.add(desc); sorter = (((result_data = result.getObject("sorter"))==null || result.wasNull())?" ":result_data.toString()); allTerms.add(sorter); sDate = (((result_data = result.getObject("sDate"))==null || result.wasNull())?" ":result_data.toString()); allTerms.add(sDate); } System.out.println(allTerms); </code></pre> <p>Okay, so when I run this, the system prints:</p> <pre><code>[2011SP, Spring 2011, 1, 11-15-2010, 2011SU, Summer 2011, 1, 01-15-2011, 2011FL, Fall 2011, 1, 04-01-2011, 2010Q2, CE Qtr 2 2010 Dec - Feb, 2, 08-01-2010, 2011Q3, CE Qtr 3 2011 Mar - May, 2, 11-01-2010, 2011Q4, CE Qtr 4 2011 Jun - Aug, 2, 02-01-2011, 2011Q1, CE Qtr 1 2011 Sep-Nov, 2, 05-01-2011] </code></pre> <p>I dont know if this is the correct way of doing it or not, but it is working so far, so what I want to do now is use my allTerms arrayList to transfer these results to parts of a HTML page. so for ex:</p> <pre><code>&lt;table class="t1"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;!--Here I would want to show all rows from the allTerms arrayList with a "sorter" of 1--&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;table class="t2"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;!--Here I would want to show all rows from the allTerms arrayList with a "sorter" of 1 and a term of ....SU (where '....' is the year) --&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre>