Splitting List into sublists along elements

Question

I have this list (List):

[\"a\", \"b\", null, \"c\", null, \"d\", \"e\"]

And I\'d like something like this:

Answer 1

Please do not vote. I do not have enough place to explain this in comments.

This is a solution with a Stream and a foreach but this is strictly equivalent to Alexis's solution or a foreach loop (and less clear, and I could not get rid of the copy constructor) :

List> result = new ArrayList<>();
final List current = new ArrayList<>();
list.stream().forEach(s -> {
      if (s == null) {
        result.add(new ArrayList<>(current));
        current.clear();
      } else {
        current.add(s);
      }
    }
);
result.add(current);

System.out.println(result);

I understand that you want to find a more elegant solution with Java 8 but I truly think that it has not been designed for this case. And as said by Mr spoon, highly prefer the naive way in this case.