Java 8 lambda get and remove element from list

Question

Given a list of elements, I want to get the element with a given property and remove it from the list. The best solution I found is:

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Answer 1

As others have suggested, this might be a use case for loops and iterables. In my opinion, this is the simplest approach. If you want to modify the list in-place, it cannot be considered "real" functional programming anyway. But you could use Collectors.partitioningBy() in order to get a new list with elements which satisfy your condition, and a new list of those which don't. Of course with this approach, if you have multiple elements satisfying the condition, all of those will be in that list and not only the first.