Re: How to loop through a list while inside the loop, the list size
may be decreased?
www wrote:
Roedy Green wrote:
if you use Iterator.remove, the loop will just run through the
remaining elements without you needing to do any index calculations.
Thank you. I think that will work. But I have one more question: if I
want to use Java 5 fancy looping feature(avoid using iterator,
typecasting):
for(Person p : listOfPerson)
{
if(p.getName() ...) //checking
{
??? //My question: how can I remove the Person obj from
listOfPerson
}
}
To avoid a ConcurrentModificationException you could do something like this:
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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
/**
* @author RedGrittyBrick
*/
public class ListTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
list.addAll(Arrays.asList("a","b","c","d","e"));
// Traverse list and remove b's.
for (String s: new ArrayList<String>(list)) {
System.out.print(s);
if (s.equals("b"))
list.remove(s);
}
System.out.println();
// Print remaining list
for (String s: list) {
System.out.print(s);
}
System.out.println();
}
}
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But I suspect this may not be a good idiom!
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