Re: Can you write a foreach loop like this?
Fencer wrote:
Say I have a List<SomeClass> and now I want to loop through the list but
I am only interested in the String representation of the SomeClass objects.
Do I have to do it like this:
for (SomeClass inst : aListOfSomeClass) {
String str = inst.toString();
// Do something with str
}
?
Yes. (Well, "No" if SomeClass *is* String, but ...)
The same would hold if you wanted something else derived
from the objects in the List, as opposed to the objects
themselves. The `for' will deliver the objects; you've got
to perform the desired derivation -- toString, hashCode,
getName, whatever -- on each object as you get it.
I don't really care about each instance objecct here, just the string
represenation of each instance, so is it possible to do something like
the following non-valid code (and here I imagine toString() being called
on each element):
for (String str : aListOfSomeClass.toString()) {
// Do something with str
}
No. There's no "mapcar" operation in Java.
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