Finding Elements
The now-familiar elegant methods to traverse and transform collections will not directly help pick elements from a collection. The filter method is designed for that purpose.
From a list of names, let’s pick the ones that start with the letter N. Since there may be zero matching names in the list, the result may be an empty list. Let’s first code it using the old approach.
| collections/fpij/PickElements.java | |
| | final List<String> startsWithN = new ArrayList<String>(); |
| | for(String name : friends) { |
| | if(name.startsWith("N")) { |
| | startsWithN.add(name); |
| | } |
| | } |
That’s a chatty piece of code for a simple task. We created a variable and initialized it to an empty collection. Then we looped through the collection, looking ...
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