Convert Array to HashSet in Java
Last Updated : 09 Jan, 2023
The Single Data structure cannot be able to fulfill the requirements of the programmers that's why there are a lot of inbuilt Data-Structures in Programming languages.
Arrays are the most commonly used Data-Structure in most programming languages. The advantage of this Data-Structure is O(1) accessing the elements of the Arrays with the help of indexing but the most common disadvantages are we cannot change the size of the array after creating and the deletion of the elements is a complicated process in Arrays.
Sets: In Java, Any group of individual objects which are represented as a single unit is known as the collection of the objects. In Java, a separate framework named the “Collection Framework” has been defined in JDK 1.2 which holds all the collection classes and interface. Sets are classified into two parts sorted set and unsorted set both have advantage and disadvantage. Sorted Set i.e TreeSet sort its unique elements but the time-complexity of TreeSet is O(N log N) but unsorted Sets such as HashSet and LinkedSet do change the order of the elements but the difference between the HashSet and LinkedSet is Random Order of its elements.
Examples:
Input : Array: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Output: Set: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Input : Array: [a, b, c, d] Output: Set: [a, b, c, d]
Approach: Brute Force or Naive Method
Create an empty set (HashSet if unsorted elements require) Iterate the elements of the array and add one by one to the set.
Example:
Java // Convert array to HashSet in Java import java.io.*; import java.util.Iterator; // Importing Set libraries import java.util.Set; import java.util.HashSet; class GFG { // Function to convert array to set static Set<Integer> convert(int[] array) { // Hash Set Initialisation Set<Integer> Set = new HashSet<>(); // Iteration using enhanced for loop for (int element : array) { Set.add(element); } // returning the set return Set; } // Function to print the set static void print(Set<Integer> Set) { // Implement to iterator the Set Iterator<Integer> _iterator = Set.iterator(); // Iterate the elements of Set while (_iterator.hasNext()) { // print the element of the Set System.out.print(_iterator.next() + " "); } } public static void main(String[] args) { // Array taken for consideration int array[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 }; // Calling function to convert the array Set<Integer> Set = convert(array); // print the set print(Set); } } Approach 2:
Using Java 8 Stream API: HashSet constructor can take another collection object to construct a new set containing the elements of the specified array.
- Get the Array to be converted.
- Convert the array to Stream
- Convert the Stream to Set using Collectors.toSet()
- Collect the formed set using the collect() method
- Return the formed Set.
Example:
Java // Convert Array to HashSet in Java import java.util.*; import java.util.stream.*; class GFG { // Generic function to convert array to set public static <T> Set<T> convertArrayToSet(T array[]) { // create a set from the Array return Arrays.stream(array).collect( Collectors.toSet()); } public static void main(String args[]) { // Create an Array String array[] = { "Geeks", "forGeeks", "A computer Portal" }; // Print the Array System.out.println("Array: " + Arrays.toString(array)); // convert the Array to Set Set<String> set = convertArrayToSet(array); // Print the Set System.out.println("Set: " + set); } } OutputArray: [Geeks, forGeeks, A computer Portal] Set: [A computer Portal, Geeks, forGeeks]
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