Java - Filtering List Entries by Regex

Question

My code looks like this:

List filterList(List list, String regex) {
  List result = new ArrayList();
         


        

Answer 1

In java 8 you can do something like this using new stream API:

List filterList(List list, String regex) {
    return list.stream().filter(s -> s.matches(regex)).collect(Collectors.toList());
}