How do I remove objects from an array in Java?

Question

Given an array of n Objects, let\'s say it is an array of strings, and it has the following values:

foo[0] = \"a\";
foo[1]          


        

Answer 1

If it doesn't matter the order of the elements. you can swap between the elements foo[x] and foo[0], then call foo.drop(1).

foo.drop(n) removes (n) first elements from the array.

I guess this is the simplest and resource efficient way to do.

PS: indexOf can be implemented in many ways, this is my version.

Integer indexOf(String[] arr, String value){
    for(Integer i = 0 ; i < arr.length; i++ )
        if(arr[i] == value)
            return i;         // return the index of the element
    return -1                 // otherwise -1
}

while (true) {
   Integer i;
   i = indexOf(foo,"a")
   if (i == -1) break;
   foo[i] = foo[0];           // preserve foo[0]
   foo.drop(1);
}