Cleanest way to find objects matching certain criteria in a java.util.List?

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Published on 2008-10-22T15:27:28Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 17:14 UTC
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I could write myself a helper class that does this when given a functor, but I was wondering if there's a better approach, or if there's something already in the standard library (seems like there should be).

Answers I've found on StackOverflow are all for C# which doesn't help me.

Thanks

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