How to get relative index of array element based upon a stri

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In JavaScript you can create an Array based on String variables so that youcan get the relative index of any particular element based upon the Stringvalue in another array. e.g.column_name = new Array();column_name_idx = new Array();column_name[0] = "colname1";column_name_idx[column_name[0]] = 0;index = column_name_idx["colname1"];I'm at a complete loss on how to convert this to Java.Thanks,Gary