Question

I have an ArrayList suppose list, and it has 8 items A-H and now I want to delete 1,3,5 position Item stored in int array from the list how can I do this.

I am trying to do this with

ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
list.add("A");
list.add("B");
list.add("C");
list.add("D");
list.add("E");
list.add("F");
list.add("G");
list.add("H");

int i[] = {1,3,5};

for (int j = 0; j < i.length; j++) {
    list.remove(i[j]);
}

But after first item deleted positioned of array is changed and in the next iterate it deletes wrong element or give exception.

Answer 1

In this specific case, you should remove the elements in descending order. First index 5, then 3, then 1. This will remove the elements from the list without undesirable side effects.

for (int j = i.length-1; j >= 0; j--) {
    list.remove(i[j]);
}