How to lowercase every element of a collection efficiently?
- by Chris
Whats the most efficient way to lower case every element of a list or set?
My idea for a List:
final List<String> strings = new ArrayList<String>();
strings.add("HELLO");
strings.add("WORLD");
for(int i=0,l=strings.size();i<l;++i)
{
strings.add(strings.remove(0).toLowerCase());
}
is there a better, faster way? How would this exmaple look like for a set? As there is currently no method for applying an operation to each element of a set (or list) can it be done without creating an additional temporary set?
Something like this would be nice:
Set<String> strings = new HashSet<String>();
strings.apply(
function (element)
{ this.replace(element, element.toLowerCase();) }
);
Thanks,
