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How to swap two elements in an ArrayList

Last Updated: September 11, 2022 by Chaitanya Singh | Filed Under: java

This tutorial will help you understand how to swap two elements in an ArrayList. We are using Collections.swap() method for swapping.

public static void swap(List list, int i1, int i2)

This method swaps the element of index i1 with the element of index i2. It throws IndexOutOfBoundsException – if either i1 or i2 is less than zero or greater than the size of the list (i1 < 0 || i1 >= list.size() || i2 < 0 || i2 >= list.size()).

Example of swapping two elements in ArrayList

In this example we have a ArrayList<String> and we are swapping 2nd (index =1) and 5th (index=4) element of ArrayList using Collections.swap() method.

package beginnersbook.com;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;

public class SwappingExample {

 public static void main(String a[]){
    ArrayList<String> al = new ArrayList<String>();
    al.add("Sachin");
    al.add("Rahul");
    al.add("Saurav");
    al.add("Sunil");
    al.add("Kapil");
    al.add("Vinod");

    System.out.println("ArrayList before Swap:");
    for(String temp: al){
        System.out.println(temp);
    }

    //Swapping 2nd(index 1) element with the 5th(index 4) element
    Collections.swap(al, 1, 4);

    System.out.println("ArrayList after swap:");
    for(String temp: al){
       System.out.println(temp);
    }
  }
}

Output:

ArrayList before Swap:
Sachin
Rahul
Saurav
Sunil
Kapil
Vinod
ArrayList after swap:
Sachin
Kapil
Saurav
Sunil
Rahul
Vinod

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