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How to Convert an Array to LinkedHashSet in Java?

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An array is a collection of items stored at contiguous memory locations. An array can contain primitives data types as well as objects of a class depending on the definition of the array. Whereas LinkedHashSet contains only unique elements and they are stored in the same order in which they are inserted.

Examples:

Input: arr = {"A", "B", "C", "D", "A"}
Output: LinkedHashSet = {"A", "B", "C", "D"}
LinkedHashSet does not contain repeated elements.

Input: arr = {1, 3, 5, 3, 1}
Output: LinkedHashset = {1, 3, 5}

There are several ways using which we can convert an array to an object of the LinkedHashSet in Java as given below:

1.  Using the asList method and LinkedHashSet constructor

  • The LinkedHashSet class provides a constructor that accepts a collection object.
  • But to use that, we need to convert the array to a List using the asList method of the Arrays class.

Java




// Java program to convert an array to LinkedHashSet
  
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.Set;
  
public class ArrayToLinkedHashSet {
  
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
  
        // array of string
        String[] names
            = { "John", "Devid", "Smith", "Joe", "Stark" };
  
        // First convert the name array to List and then
        // use the LinkedHashSet constructor to convert
        // array to linkedhasset
  
        Set<String> linkedhasset_name
            = new LinkedHashSet<String>(Arrays.asList(names));
  
        System.out.println(
            "LinkedHashSet contains element: " + linkedhasset_name);
    }
}


Output

LinkedHashSet contains element: [John, Devid, Smith, Joe, Stark]

2.  Using the asList method and addAll method

  • Similar to the previous approach, we will first convert an array to a List
  • But this time instead of using the constructor, we will use addAll method to add elements from the array to a linked hash set.

Java




// Java program to convert an array to LinkedHashSet
  
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.Set;
   
public class ArrayToLinkedHashSet {
   
    public static void main(String[] args) {
          
       String[] names = {"John", "Devid", "Smith", "Joe", "Stark"};
   
      //create new empty LinkedHashSet object to store array element    
      Set<String> linkhasset_name = new LinkedHashSet<String>();
  
      //add all elements of list to LinkedHashSet
      linkhasset_name.addAll( Arrays.asList(names) );
  
      System.out.println("LinkedHashSet contains: " + linkhasset_name);
    }
}


Output

LinkedHashSet contains: [John, Devid, Smith, Joe, Stark]

3.  Using Java 8 Stream API:

  • Similar to HashSet, you can also use toCollection() method of Collectors class to convert a Stream to LinkedHashSet.
  • First, convert array to stream then convert the stream to LinkedHashSet using collection stream which only works in java 8 version.
collect( Collectors.toCollection( LinkedHashSet::new ) );

Java




// Java program to convert an array to LinkedHashSet
  
import java.io.*; 
import java.util.ArrayList; 
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.*; 
import java.util.stream.*;
import java.util.Set;
   
public class ArrayToLinkedHashSet {
   
    public static void main(String[] args) {
          
    String[] names = {"John", "Devid", "Smith", "Joe", "Stark"};
   
    //create new empty LinkedHashSet object    
    Set<String> linkhasset_name = new LinkedHashSet<String>();
  
    //add all elements of list to LinkedHashSet
     linkhasset_name = Arrays.stream(names).collect( Collectors.toCollection( LinkedHashSet::new ) );
  
    System.out.println("LinkedHashSet contains: " + linkhasset_name);
  
    }
}


Output

LinkedHashSet contains: [John, Devid, Smith, Joe, Stark]

4.  Using a loop or brute force

  • We can iterate through all the elements of the array using a for loop and add elements to the LinkedHashSet object one by one as given below.

Java




// Java program to convert an array to LinkedHashSet
  
import java.io.*; 
import java.util.ArrayList; 
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.*; 
import java.util.Set;
   
public class ArrayToLinkedHashSet {
   
    public static void main(String[] args) {
  
      String[] names = {"John", "Devid", "Smith", "Joe", "Stark"};
  
      //create new empty LinkedHashSet object    
      Set<String> linkhasset_name = new LinkedHashSet<String>();
  
      //iterate an array and add elements one by one to the linkedhasset
      for(String name : names){
          linkhasset_name.add(name);
      }
  
      System.out.println("LinkedHashSet contains: " + linkhasset_name);
    }
}


Output

LinkedHashSet contains: [John, Devid, Smith, Joe, Stark]


Last Updated : 28 Dec, 2020
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