Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright 2009 Welocalize, Inc. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * * You may obtain a copy of the License at * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * */ import java.util.Collection; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.HashSet; public class Main { /** * Removes duplicate objects from the Collection. * @param p_collection a Collection * @returns true if one or more duplicate objects were removed. */ public static boolean removeDuplicates(Collection p_collection) { if (p_collection == null) { return false; } HashSet set = new HashSet(p_collection.size()); Iterator it = p_collection.iterator(); while (it.hasNext()) { set.add(it.next()); } if (set.size() != p_collection.size()) { p_collection.clear(); p_collection.addAll(set); return true; } return false; } }