In Java, remove empty elements from a list of Strings

Question

In Java, I have an ArrayList of Strings like:

[,Hi, ,How,are,you]

I want to remove the null and empty elements, how to change it so it is l

Answer 1

Regarding the comment of Andrew Mairose - Although a fine solution, I would just like to add that this solution will not work on fixed size lists.

You could attempt doing like so:

Arrays.asList(new String[]{"a", "b", null, "c", "    "})
    .removeIf(item -> item == null || "".equals(item));

But you'll encounter an UnsupportedOperationException at java.util.AbstractList.remove(since asList returns a non-resizable List).

A different solution might be this:

List collect =
    Stream.of(new String[]{"a", "b", "c", null, ""})
        .filter(item -> item != null && !"".equals(item))
        .collect(Collectors.toList());

Which will produce a nice list of strings :-)