How to avoid null pointer error
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I trying to find whether the elements of 2 arrayLists are match or not.
But this code give me error Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException since some of the elements are null. 
How can I solved this problem?
String level []={"High","High","High","High","High","High"};
ArrayList<Object> n = new ArrayList<Object>(Arrays.asList(level));
String choice []={null,"High","Low","High",null,"Medium"}; 
ArrayList<Object> m = new ArrayList<Object>(Arrays.asList(choice));
//Check if the two arrayList are identical
for(int i=0; i<m.size(); i++){
   if(!(m.get(i).equals(n.get(i)))){   
 result= true;
 break;
   } 
} 
    return  result;
}
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