Re: Can you write a foreach loop like this?
Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
In article <7nkah7F3luvvkU1@mid.individual.net>,
Fencer <no.i.dont@want.mail.from.spammers.com> wrote:
Say I have a List<SomeClass> and now I want to loop through the list but
I am only interested in the String representation of the SomeClass objects.
Do I have to do it like this:
for (SomeClass inst : aListOfSomeClass) {
String str = inst.toString();
// Do something with str
}
?
I don't really care about each instance objecct here, just the string
represenation of each instance, so is it possible to do something like
the following non-valid code (and here I imagine toString() being called
on each element):
for (String str : aListOfSomeClass.toString()) {
// Do something with str
}
Hope I made sense, thanks!
- Fencer
Java always has a hard way :)
public class StringItr implements Iterable<String>
{
final Iterable m_target;
This should be an Iterable<?>
public StringItr (Iterable i)
Same for this Iterable
{
m_target= i;
}
public Iterator<String> iterator()
{
return new Iterator<String> ()
{
final Iterator i= m_target.iterator();
make this an Iterator<?>
public boolean hasNext()
{
return i.hasNext();
}
public String next()
{
return String.valueOf(i.next());
}
public void remove()
{
i.remove();
}
};
}
}
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