Apache CollectionUtils subtract and removeAll difference
Maven Dependency
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
<version>4.1</version>
</dependency>
Difference between subtract
and removeAll
You can use CollectionUtils.removeAll(collection, remove)
or CollectionUtils.subtract(collection, remove)
to remove certain element from collections, the difference is that the former can reuse element in remove
variable, the later can not. The following is an example:
From the above example, you can see that removeAll
remove all duplicate elements, however, subtract
only remove element in remove
variable once