Java List Search search(List> collection, T element)

Description

search

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static <T> int search(List<? extends Comparable<? super T>> collection, T element) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//from  www . j ava 2  s. c  o  m
This file is part of PH-Tree:
A multi-dimensional indexing and storage structure.
    
Copyright (C) 2011-2015
Eidgen?ssische Technische Hochschule Z?rich (ETH Zurich)
Institute for Information Systems
GlobIS Group
Bogdan Vancea, Tilmann Zaeschke
zaeschke@inf.ethz.ch or zoodb@gmx.de
    
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
    
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
    
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/

import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    public static <T> int search(List<? extends Comparable<? super T>> collection, T element) {
        int index = 0;
        for (Comparable<? super T> el : collection) {
            int cmp = el.compareTo(element);
            if (cmp == 0) {
                return index;
            }
            index++;
        }
        return -1;
    }
}

Related

1. search(String[] searchList, String s)
2. searchReplace(String key, String value, List lines)