Removing Key-Value Pairs: public Object remove(Object key) : HashMap « Collections « Java Tutorial

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1. If the key is present, the key-value pair will be removed and the value object will be returned.
2. If the object is not present in the map, null will be returned.

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] a) {

    Map map = new HashMap();
    map.put("key1", "value1");
    map.put("key2", "value2");
    map.put("key3", "value3");
    map.remove("key3");

    System.out.println(map);
  }
}

{key1=value1, key2=value2}