how do I ignore/delete values of an array in java

I have a list of words , there are 4 words, it cant contain more that 4 its just an example. I want to use just 2 of the words the rest of them should be ignored or deleted e.g :

    String planets = "Moon,Sun,Jupite开发者_运维技巧r,Mars";
    String[] planetsArray = planets.split(",");
    int numberOfPlanets = planetsArray.length;

the result i get is 4. How do i delete the rest of the words if my list contains more that 2 words ?

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As suggested in your previous question, you can use

String[] fewPlanets = new String[]{planets[0], planets[1]};

Just make sure the planets array has 2 elements or more to avoid an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. You can use length to check it: if (planets.length >= 2)

For a more sophisticated solution, you could also do this using System.arrayCopy() if you're using Java 1.5 or earlier,

int numberOfElements = 2;
String[] fewPlanets = new String[2];
System.arraycopy(planets, 0, fewPlanets, 0, numberOfElements);

or Arrays.copyOf() if you're using Java 1.6 or later:

int numberOfElements = 2;
String[] fewPlanets = Arrays.copyOf(planets, numberOfElements);

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String planets = "Moon,Sun,Jupiter,Mars";
String[] planetsArray = planets.split(",");
if(planetsArray .length > 2){
  String []newArr = new String[2];
  newArr[0]=planetsArray [0];
  newArr[1]=planetsArray [2];
  planetsArray = newArr ;
}

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Use Arrays.asList to get a List of Strings from String[] planetsArray.

Then use the methods of the List interface -contains,remove,add, ...- to simply do whatever you want on that List.

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If you need to select the first 2 planets just copy the array:

String[] newPlanetsArray = Arrays.CopyOf(planetsArray, 2);

If you need to select 2 specific planets you can apply the following algorithm:

First, create a new array with 2 elements. Then, iterate through the elements in the original array and if the current element is a match add it to the new array (keep track of the current position in the new array to add the next element).

String[] newPlanetsArray = new String[2];

for(int i = 0, int j = 0; i < planetsArray.length; i++) {
   if (planetsArray[i].equals("Jupiter") || planetsArray[i].equals("Mars")) {
      newPlanetsArray[j++] = planetsArray[i];
      if (j > 1)
         break;
   }
}

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You could use an idea from How to find nth occurrence of character in a string? and avoid reading the remaining values from your comma separated string input. Simply locate the second comma and substring upto there

(Of course if your code snippet is just an example and you do not have a comma separated input, then please ignore this suggestion :)