Best way to create a hashmap of arraylist

Question

I have one million rows of data in .txt format. the format is very simple. For each row:

user1,value1
user2,value2
user3,value3
user1,value4
...

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Answer 1

Since Java 8 you can use map.computeIfAbsent

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Map.html#computeIfAbsent-K-java.util.function.Function-

Collection values = map.computeIfAbsent(user, k -> new ArrayList<>());
values.add(value);