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Java program to remove the last occurrence of a specified item from the LinkedList

Java example to remove the last occurrence of a specified item from the LinkedList.
Submitted by Nidhi, on April 22, 2022

Problem statement

In this program, we will create a list using the LinkedList collection with some elements. Then we will remove the last occurrence of the specified item using the removeLastOccurrence() method.

The removeLastOccurrence() method returns true on successful removal of the item. Otherwise, it returns false.

Source Code

The source code to remove the last occurrence of the specified item from the LinkedList is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

// Java program to remove the last occurrence of a specified 
// item from the LinkedList

import java.util.LinkedList;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    LinkedList list = new LinkedList();

    list.add(1);
    list.add("TWO");
    list.add(3);
    list.add("FOUR");
    list.add("TWO");
    list.add(true);
    list.add("THREE");

    System.out.println("List Items: \n" + list);

    if (list.removeLastOccurrence("TWO"))
      System.out.println("\nLast occurrence of 'TWO' is removed");
    else
      System.out.println("\nLast occurrence of 'TWO' is not removed");

    System.out.println("\nUpdated List: \n" + list);
  }
}

Output

List Items: 
[1, TWO, 3, FOUR, TWO, true, THREE]

Last occurrence of 'TWO' is removed

Updated List: 
[1, TWO, 3, FOUR, true, THREE]

Explanation

In the above program, we imported the "java.util.LinkedList" package to use the LinkedList collection class. Here, we created a class Main. The Main class contains a main() method. The main() method is the entry point for the program.

In the main() method, we created a list using the LinkedList collection and added items using add() method. Then we removed the last occurrence of item "TWO" from LinkedList using the removeLastOccurrence("TWO") method and printed the result.

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