How to find min & max of a List in Java

Problem Description

How to find min & max of a List?

Solution

Following example uses min & max Methods to find minimum & maximum of the List.

import java.util.*;

public class Main {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      List list = Arrays.asList("one Two three Four five six one three Four".split(" "));
      System.out.println(list);
      System.out.println("max: " + Collections.max(list));
      System.out.println("min: " + Collections.min(list));
   }
}

Result

The above code sample will produce the following result.

[one, Two, three, Four, five, six, one, three, Four]
max: three
min: Four