Removing entries from a HashMap
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Join For FreeThere are a few solutions for looping a HashMap, but one of the most elegant looks like below:
HashMap<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
map.put("One", 1);
map.put("Two", 2);
map.put("Three", 3);
map.put("Four", 4);
map.put("Five", 5);
map.put("Six", 6);
map.put("Seven", 7);
map.put("Eight", 8);
map.put("Nine", 9);
map.put("Ten", 10);
for (Map.Entry<String, Integer> entry : map.entrySet()) {
System.out.println(map.getKey() + " " + map.getValue());
}Now, that is great, but if you try to remove an entry while looping
for (Map.Entry<String, Integer> entry : map.entrySet()) {
if(entry.getValue() > 5){
map.remove(entry.getKey());
}
}
an java.util.ConcurrentModificationException will occur!
Solving this issue involves adding an Iterator which conforming to documentation “Iterators allow the caller to remove elements from the underlying collection during the iteration with well-defined semantics.” will allows us to call remove(). Therefore, here it is:
for(Iterator<Map.Entry<String,Integer>>it=map.entrySet().iterator();it.hasNext();){
Map.Entry<String, Integer> entry = it.next();
if (entry.getValue() > 5) {
it.remove();
}
}Done !
From http://e-blog-java.blogspot.com/2011/09/removing-entries-from-hashmap.html
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