Common elements in two lists

Question

I have two ArrayList objects with three integers each. I want to find a way to return the common elements of the two lists. Has anybody an idea how I can achieve this?

Answer 1

            List<String> lista =new ArrayList<String>();
            List<String> listb =new ArrayList<String>();

            lista.add("Isabella");
            lista.add("Angelina");
            lista.add("Pille");
            lista.add("Hazem");

            listb.add("Isabella");
            listb.add("Angelina");
            listb.add("Bianca");

            // Create an aplusb list which will contain both list (list1 and list2) in which common element will occur twice 
            List<String> listapluslistb =new ArrayList<String>(lista);    
            listapluslistb.addAll(listb);

            // Create an aunionb set which will contain both list (list1 and list2) in which common element will occur once
            Set<String> listaunionlistb =new HashSet<String>(lista);
            listaunionlistb.addAll(listb);

            for(String s:listaunionlistb)
            {
                listapluslistb.remove(s);
            }
            System.out.println(listapluslistb);

Answer 2

You can use set intersection operations with your ArrayList objects.

Something like this:

List<Integer> l1 = new ArrayList<Integer>();

l1.add(1);
l1.add(2);
l1.add(3);

List<Integer> l2= new ArrayList<Integer>();
l2.add(4);
l2.add(2);
l2.add(3);

System.out.println("l1 == "+l1);
System.out.println("l2 == "+l2);

List<Integer> l3 = new ArrayList<Integer>(l2);
l3.retainAll(l1);

    System.out.println("l3 == "+l3);
    System.out.println("l2 == "+l2);

Now, l3 should have only common elements between l1 and l2.

CONSOLE OUTPUT
l1 == [1, 2, 3]
l2 == [4, 2, 3]
l3 == [2, 3]
l2 == [4, 2, 3]

Answer 3

Using Java 8's Stream.filter() method in combination with List.contains():

import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;

/* ... */

List<Integer> list1 = asList(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
List<Integer> list2 = asList(1, 3, 5, 7, 9);

List<Integer> common = list1.stream().filter(list2::contains).collect(toList());

Answer 4

List<Integer> listA = new ArrayList<>();
    listA.add(1);
    listA.add(5);
    listA.add(3);
    listA.add(4);   

List<Integer> listB = new ArrayList<>();
    listB.add(1);
    listB.add(5);
    listB.add(6);
    listB.add(7);
System.out.println(listA.stream().filter(listB::contains).collect(Collectors.toList()));


Java 1.8 Stream API Solutions

Output [1, 5]

Answer 5

    // Create two collections:
    LinkedList<String> listA =  new LinkedList<String>();
    ArrayList<String> listB =  new ArrayList<String>();

    // Add some elements to listA:
    listA.add("A");
    listA.add("B");
    listA.add("C");
    listA.add("D");

    // Add some elements to listB:
    listB.add("A");
    listB.add("B");
    listB.add("C");

    // use 

    List<String> common = new ArrayList<String>(listA);
    // use common.retainAll

    common.retainAll(listB);

    System.out.println("The common collection is : " + common);

Answer 6

In case you want to do it yourself..

List<Integer> commons = new ArrayList<Integer>();

for (Integer igr : group1) {
    if (group2.contains(igr)) {
        commons.add(igr);
    }
}

System.out.println("Common elements are :: -");
for (Integer igr : commons) {
    System.out.println(" "+igr);
}