What is the minusElement method in Kotlin?
Overview
In Kotlin, the minusElement method is used to remove the first occurrence of the given element from the MutableList class, and return other elements as a new MutableList.
Syntax
fun <T> Iterable<T>.minusElement(element: T): List<T>
Parameters
This method takes the first occurrence of the element to be removed from the list as an argument.
Return value
This method returns a new MutableList object created from the invoking MutableList.
Example
fun main() {val list: List<Int> = mutableListOf(1, 2, 3, 2, 4)println("The list is : $list")val newList = list.minusElement(2);println("After removing the 1st occurrence of 2 the list is : $newList")}
Explanation
Line 3: We use the mutableListOf method to create a new MutableList object with the name list. For the mutableListOf method, we provide 1,2,3,2,4 as an argument. All the provided arguments will be present in the returned list. The list is [1,2,3,2,4].
Line 6: We use the minusElement method with 2 as an argument. This removes the first occurrence of 2 from the list, and returns a new MutableList object. It returns [1,3,2,4].
