I have managed to fetch a string from the database and be able to store some of its elements in variable so as to reduce the number of times the app interacts with the databse. However I wanted the first element to be fetched from the database to be stored in a list but it keeps generating an error when i parse the string to a new list. please help
//String fetched from the database
final String[] rec = split(myresult,seperator);
//loc is the first String to be parsed to a String..
//desc is the 2nd string to be parsed to a textarea
//coords 3rd string which contains coordinates..
String loc=rec[0];
final String desc=rec[1];
String coords=rec[2];
//ERROR IS GENERATED HERE!!!
listmboya=new List(loc);
//Separate the coordinates in the string...
String seperator2=",";
String [] coordinates=split(coords,seperator2);
String lat=coordinates[0];
String lot=coordinates[1];
//convert them to floats..
item1=Float.parseFloat(lat);
item2=Float.parseFloat(lot);