How to swap two items in ArrayList in Java
The following code swaps; two elements in an ArrayList. You can swap two items by calling the Collections.swap(int i1, int i2) . You must pass as arguments the indices of the two objects to be swapped.import java.util.ArrayList;Result:
import java.util.Collections;
public class swap {
public static void main(String a[]){
ArrayListarlist = new ArrayList ();
arlist.add("o1");
arlist.add("o2");
arlist.add("o3");
arlist.add("o4");
System.out.println("Before: "+arlist);
//swap the two objects at index 1 and 3
//o2 and o4
Collections.swap(arlist, 1, 3);
System.out.println("After: "+arlist);
}
}
Before: [o1, o2, o3, o4]Reference:
After: [o1, o4, o3, o2]
javadoc: Collections.swap()