[ Java 常見問題 ] Remove all elements from a List after a particular index

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Is there any convenient way in List/ArrayList by which we can remove all elements of a List after a particular index. Instead of manually looping through it for removing. To be more explanatory, if I have a list of 10 elements, I want to mention index 3 and then all elements after index 3 gets removed and my list would consist of only starting 4 elements now (counts from 0)

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Regarding to your question, below sample code will fit your requirement:

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1. list.subList(4, list.size()).clear();  

Sublist operations are reflected in the original list, so this clears everything from index 4 inclusive to list.size() exclusive, a.k.a. everything after index 3. Range removal is specifically used as an example in the documentation:

This method eliminates the need for explicit range operations (of the sort that commonly exist for arrays). Any operation that expects a list can be used as a range operation by passing a subList view instead of a whole list. For example, the following idiom removes a range of elements from a list:

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1. list.subList(from, to).clear();  

Below interactive groovysh shows how it works:

groovy:000> list = []; (0..10).each{list.add(it)} # Crate a list for demonstration
===> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
groovy:000> list.subList(4, list.size()).clear() # Remove all element(s) after index 4 as inclusive
===> null
groovy:000> list # The removing effect reflects on original list
===> [0, 1, 2, 3]