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Java ArrayList clear
Posted on: October 23, 2009 at 12:00 AM
This section demonstrates how to use the clear method in Java ArrayList

  • It removes all the elements of the given list and returns empty list
  • But the remove method removes element one by one


Java Arraylist Clear Example
import java.util.*;

public class List1 {

public static void main(String[] args) {
String  ar[]={"india","pakistan","United Kingdom","Japan"};
List list=new ArrayList();
list.add(ar[0]);
list.add(ar[1]);
list.add(ar[2]);
list.add(ar[3]);

System.out.println(list);
list.clear();
System.out.println(list);

}
}
Output
[india, pakistan, United Kingdom, Japan]
[]

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