Re: How to access iterator?
Todd <todd.heidenthal@lmco.com> wrote:
In the brief form of the loop {for( double value : collection )} can
one access the iterator that is created to perform the loop?
Nope.
I ask as there are times that I would like to reassign the i-th value
in collection to the result of an operation on value.
There's no great way to do this. Actually, having access to the Iterator
wouldn't help you either - imagine the old-style version of the loop:
Iterator it = myCollection.iterator();
while (it.hasNext) {
Object myObj = it.next();
...
}
Even though the iterator is in scope, you don't have any data about the index.
This is good, generally - you don't know that you're iterating over something
that CAN be accessed by index, and certainly don't know that it would be
efficient.
I generally end up doing something like:
int idx=0;
for (Object myObj : myCollection) {
...
idx++;
}
Gross, but it works, and it's often simpler than trying to refactor my data
structures so that such usage isn't needed.
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