// collectionsindepth/SortedSetDemo.java // (c)2016 MindView LLC: see Copyright.txt // We make no guarantees that this code is fit for any purpose. // Visit http://mindviewinc.com/Books/OnJava/ for more book information. // What you can do with a TreeSet import java.util.*; public class SortedSetDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { SortedSet sortedSet = new TreeSet<>(); Collections.addAll(sortedSet, "one two three four five six seven eight" .split(" ")); System.out.println(sortedSet); String low = sortedSet.first(); String high = sortedSet.last(); System.out.println(low); System.out.println(high); Iterator it = sortedSet.iterator(); for(int i = 0; i <= 6; i++) { if(i == 3) low = it.next(); if(i == 6) high = it.next(); else it.next(); } System.out.println(low); System.out.println(high); System.out.println(sortedSet.subSet(low, high)); System.out.println(sortedSet.headSet(high)); System.out.println(sortedSet.tailSet(low)); } } /* Output: [eight, five, four, one, seven, six, three, two] eight two one two [one, seven, six, three] [eight, five, four, one, seven, six, three] [one, seven, six, three, two] */