Java ArrayList Choose N elements

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votes

Say I have an ArrayList containing the elements {1,2,3,4}, and I want to enumerate all possible combinations of two elements in the ArrayList. i.e. (1,2), (1,3), (1,4), (2,3), (2,4), (3,4). What is the most elegant way of going about doing this?

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javaarraylistcombinations

1 Answers

6
votes

Nested for loops would work:

for (int i = 0; i < arrayList.size(); ++i) {
    for (int j = i + 1; j < arrayList.size(); ++j) {
        // Use arrayList.get(i) and arrayList.get(j).
    }
}