Is there a concise way to iterate over a stream with indices in Java 8?

Question

Is there a concise way to iterate over a stream whilst having access to the index in the stream?

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Answer 1

There isn't a way to iterate over a Stream whilst having access to the index because a Stream is unlike any Collection. A Stream is merely a pipeline for carrying data from one place to another, as stated in the documentation:

No storage. A stream is not a data structure that stores elements; instead, they carry values from a source (which could be a data structure, a generator, an IO channel, etc) through a pipeline of computational operations.

Of course, as you appear to be hinting at in your question, you could always convert your Stream to a Collection, such as a List, in which you will have access to the indexes.