Finding Operations in Stream
Explore how to use the finding operations findFirst and findAny in Java 8 Stream API to retrieve elements from a stream. This lesson helps you understand when to use each method, especially in sequential and parallel streams, and how to handle results using Optional.
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In the previous lesson, we looked at matching operations. Those operations check whether the elements in the stream match particular criteria, and they return true or false.
However, sometimes we need to get the matched element instead of just verifying if it is present or not. The finding operations are used for this purpose. There are two basic finding operations in streams, i.e., findFirst() and findAny(). ...