Answer by AGéoCoder for string to string array conversion in java

An additional method:

As was already mentioned, you could convert the original String "name" to a char array quite easily:

String originalString = "name";
char[] charArray = originalString.toCharArray();

To continue this train of thought, you could then convert the char array to a String array:

String[] stringArray = new String[charArray.length];
for (int i = 0; i < charArray.length; i++){
    stringArray[i] = String.valueOf(charArray[i]);
}

At this point, your stringArray will be filled with the original values from your original string "name". For example, now calling

System.out.println(stringArray[0]);

Will return the value "n" (as a String) in this case.