Question

So I have a java hashmap like below:

hMap.put("1", "One");
hMap.put("2", "Two");
hMap.put("3", "Two");

I would like to remove ALL items where the value is “Two”

If I do something like:

hmap.values().remove("Two");

Only the first one is deleted, I want to remove them all, how can this be done?

Answer 1

hmap.values().removeAll(Collections.singleton("Two"));

EDIT: the (significant) disadvantage with this concise approach is that you are basically forced to comment it, saying something like

// remove("Two") would only remove the first one

otherwise, some well-meaning engineer will try to simplify it for you someday and break it. This happens… sometimes the well-intentioned do-gooder is even Future You!