Re: store or clone the Iterator

From:
"ricky.clarkson@gmail.com" <ricky.clarkson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
4 Sep 2006 12:45:20 -0700
Message-ID:
<1157399120.648380.208080@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
I would do this by looping through, and storing a minimum value..

int min=Integer.MAX_VALUE;

for (final Integer key: list)
{
    int value=f(key);

    if (value<min)
        min=value;
}

return min;

Of course, this gives you a stupidly high number if there are no
elements in the list, and I'll leave solving that as an exercise for
the OP. ;)

This can be nicely generalised into a method that takes a function as
an argument, which is also fun. See fpeas.util.Collections.min in
Functional Peas:

http://functionalpeas.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/fpeas/util/Collections.java

p7371464@yahoo.com.tw wrote:

I have a LinkedList which stores some integer key.
For each key, I can use a computing function f() to get the
corresponding value.
In order to founding the key which has smallest value, I must work
through all key in the list.
Once found the key, I will remove the key from the list.
So I wrote the code as follow:

...
LinkedList<Integer> list = new LinkedList<Integer>();
...
...add some integer key to the list
....

ListIterator<Integer> it = list.listIterator();
ListIterator<Integer> it_save;
Integer min=Integer.MAX_VALUE;

//walk through all key in the list to found the key have minimum value
while(it.hasNext()){
    int key = it.next();
    int value = f(i);

    if(value < min){
        it.previous();
        It_save = it;
        it.next();
    }
}

//remove the key which has smallest value
it_save.remove();
....

But the above code can not work correctly, have any method to store the
ListIterator variable while
scan the list ?

Thanks in advance.

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