java stream to list_Java 8 Stream Convert List<List<String>> to List<String>

As title, we can use flatMap to convert it.

Java9Example1.java

package com.mkyong.test;

import java.util.Arrays;

import java.util.List;

import java.util.Scanner;

import java.util.stream.Collectors;

public class Java9Example1 {

public static void main(String[] args) {

List numbers = Arrays.asList("1", "2", "A", "B", "C1D2E3");

List> collect = numbers.stream()

.map(x -> new Scanner(x).findAll("\\D+")

.map(m -> m.group())

.collect(Collectors.toList())

.collect(Collectors.toList());

collect.forEach(x -> System.out.println(x));

Output

[]

[]

[A]

[B]

[C, D, E]

Solution

Java9Example2.java

package com.mkyong.test;

import java.util.Arrays;

import java.util.List;

import java.util.Scanner;

import java.util.stream.Collectors;

public class Java9Example2 {

public static void main(String[] args) {

List numbers = Arrays.asList("1", "2", "A", "B", "C1D2E3");

List collect = numbers.stream()

.map(x -> new Scanner(x).findAll("\\D+")

.map(m -> m.group())

.collect(Collectors.toList())

) // List>

.flatMap(List::stream)// List

.collect(Collectors.toList());

collect.forEach(x -> System.out.println(x));

Output