Iterate to find a Map entry at an index?

Question

I have a LinkedHashMap. I want to get the Foo at index N. Is there a better way of doing this besides iterating until I find it?:

int target = N;
int index =         


        

Answer 1

A simplification of @Mark's solution... You only need the values, so each time you change a value in the foos Map, also update an array.

Map foos =;
Foo[] fooValues = {};

foos.put(foos.name(), foo);
fooValues = foos.values().toArray(new Foo[foos.size()]);

// later
Foo foo = fooValues[N];