Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright (c) 2008 Arno Haase. All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html Contributors: Arno Haase - initial API and implementation */ import java.lang.reflect.Array; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; public class Main { @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public static <T> T[] withoutFirst(T[] o) { final Class<?> memberClass = o.getClass().getComponentType(); final T[] result = (T[]) Array.newInstance(memberClass, o.length - 1); System.arraycopy(o, 1, result, 0, result.length); return result; } public static <T> List<T> withoutFirst(List<T> o) { final List<T> result = new ArrayList<T>(); for (int i = 1; i < o.size(); i++) result.add(o.get(i)); return result; } }