I had a List that had around 70000 objects in it and I needed only the first 15000. I was about to create a new empty array list and iterate 15000 times over the current one in order to get a smaller list. That would have been a mess.
I searched a bit and realized there was an easier (and I’m hoping it’s more efficient) way to reduce the size of a list.
//templist has 70000 objects in it
tempList.subList(15000 – 1, tempList.size()-1).clear();
//templist now has the first 15000 objects in it
//15000 – 1 because the positions start from 0
Tags: arraylist reduce size, java, list size reduce, sublist