Split a alphabetically sorted list into sublists based on alphabets in java

Question

I have a sorted list in java, i just want to split this list into sublists based on the first alphabet at each index of list. For example List contains

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Answer 1

You could use Java 8 Streams. Unfortunately, this method doesn't take advantage from the list being sorted already. list has to be the list containing your elements.

Map> collect =
        list.stream().collect(Collectors.groupingBy(elem -> elem.charAt(0)));