Iterate over Map (Specifically TreeMap) in Java starting from a key-value pair

Question

I have a TreeMap, I wanted to iterate over it and print key-value pairs. But I dont want to start from the beginning, I want to start from a particular key-value pair.

Basically I want to do this -

TreeMap<String, String> treeMap = new TreeMap<String, String>();
//Populate it here
treeMap.get("key1");
//get the iterator to the treemap starting from the key1-value1 pair and iterate

I know how to do this if I want to iterate from start to end, but I dont find any answers to this.

Answer 1

You can do this with tailMap :

Iterator<String> iter = treeMap.tailMap("key1").keySet().iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
    String key = iter.next();
    String value = treeMap.get(key);
    // do your stuff
}

or

Iterator<Map.Entry<String,String>> iter = treeMap.tailMap("key1").entrySet().iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
    Map.Entry<String,String> entry = iter.next();
    // do your stuff
}

Answer 2

Use tailMap ,

treeMap.tailMap(fromKey)

You can also use it like this;

for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : treeMap.tailMap("key1").entrySet()) {
   // Do something
}