How to Check if an ArrayList Contain 2 values?

Question

is there any way to check if a collection contain a value or more with better performance than looping twice with contains?

in other meaning something that would loo

Answer 1

contains takes only one param

if(person.contains("Joe") || person.contains("Jasha")){
  // do something
  }

If you are worrying about N number of elements

String[] items ={"Joe","jon","And So On".....};
for (String item : items ) {
    if (person.contains(item)) {
       //found
        break; 
    } 
}

Edit:

That || is most helpful in your case, since you have the benefit of Short-circuit_evaluation

The second argument is only executed or evaluated if the first argument does not suffice to determine the value of the expression: