Module java.base
Package java.util

Interface ListIterator<E>

Type Parameters:
E - the type of elements returned by this list iterator
All Superinterfaces:
Iterator<E>

public interface ListIterator<E> extends Iterator<E>
An iterator for lists that allows the programmer to traverse the list in either direction, modify the list during iteration, and obtain the iterator's current position in the list. A ListIterator has no current element; its cursor position always lies between the element that would be returned by a call to previous() and the element that would be returned by a call to next(). An iterator for a list of length n has n+1 possible cursor positions, as illustrated by the carets (^) below:
                      Element(0)   Element(1)   Element(2)   ... Element(n-1)
 cursor positions:  ^            ^            ^            ^                  ^
 
Note that the remove() and set(Object) methods are not defined in terms of the cursor position; they are defined to operate on the last element returned by a call to next() or previous().

This interface is a member of the Java Collections Framework.

Since:
1.2
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