Using Commons Lang (to convert) + Collections (to min/max)
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils;
public class MinMaxValue {
public static void main(String[] args) {
char[] a = {'3', '5', '1', '4', '2'};
List b = Arrays.asList(ArrayUtils.toObject(a));
System.out.println(Collections.min(b));
System.out.println(Collections.max(b));
}
}
Note that Arrays.asList() wraps the underlying array, so it should not be too memory intensive and it should not perform a copy on the elements of the array.