Java Collection Remove getItemsStartingWith(Collection items, String prefix, boolean removePrefix)

Description

get Items Starting With

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static List<String> getItemsStartingWith(Collection<String> items, String prefix, boolean removePrefix) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//w  w w. j a v  a2s .  c  o  m
 * Copyright ? 2013 - 2017 WaveMaker, 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.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;

import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    public static List<String> getItemsStartingWith(Collection<String> items, String prefix, boolean removePrefix) {
        List<String> rtn = new ArrayList<String>();
        for (String s : items) {
            if (s.startsWith(prefix)) {
                if (removePrefix) {
                    s = s.substring(prefix.length());
                }
                rtn.add(s);
            }
        }
        return rtn;
    }

    private static String substring(String s, int i, String substring, int direction) {
        if (direction >= 0) {
            return s.substring(i + substring.length());
        } else {
            return s.substring(0, i);
        }
    }
}

Related

1. getRemovedItems(Collection oldValues, Collection newValues)
2. minus(Collection primaryCollection, Collection toBeRemovedCollection, Collection target)
3. remove(Collection c, Object o)
4. remove(Collection collection, Object object)