Two ways of using Iterator

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When the for-each loop is not available, and an explicit Iterator is needed, then iteration over a collection may be done with a while loop or afor loop.

The two styles have different advantages:

• the while loop is considerably more legible
• the for loop minimizes the scope of the Iterator to the loop itself

Example  

import java.util.*;

public final class LoopStyles {

  public static void main(String... aArguments) {
    List<String> flavours = new ArrayList<>();
    flavours.add("chocolate");
    flavours.add("strawberry");
    flavours.add("vanilla");

    useWhileLoop(flavours);

    useForLoop(flavours);
  }

  private static void useWhileLoop(Collection<String> aFlavours) {
    Iterator<String> flavoursIter = aFlavours.iterator();
    while (flavoursIter.hasNext()){
      System.out.println(flavoursIter.next());
    }
  }

  /**
  * Note that this for-loop does not use an integer index.
  */
  private static void useForLoop(Collection<String> aFlavours) {
    for (Iterator<String> flavoursIter = aFlavours.iterator(); flavoursIter.hasNext();){
      System.out.println(flavoursIter.next());
    }
  }
}