Ways to iterate over a list in Java

Question

Being somewhat new to the Java language I\'m trying to familiarize myself with all the ways (or at least the non-pathological ones) that one might iterate through a list (or

Answer 1

For a backward search you should use the following:

for (ListIterator iterator = list.listIterator(list.size()); iterator.hasPrevious();) {
    SomeClass item = iterator.previous();
    ...
    item.remove(); // For instance.
}

If you want to know a position, use iterator.previousIndex(). It also helps to write an inner loop that compares two positions in the list (iterators are not equal).