Basic String Manipulation,removal of last character in While loop

Question

I am struggling with this basic code below ,

how do i prevent the last comma "," from being appended to the String.

    String outScopeActiveRegionCode="";

    List<String> activePersons=new ArrayList<String>();

    HashSet<String> outScopeActiveRegionCodeSet=new HashSet<String>();

    for (String person : activePersons) {

       outScopeActiveRegionCodeSet.add(person); 

    }
       Iterator itr = outScopeActiveRegionCodeSet.iterator();

             while(itr.hasNext()){
                outScopeActiveRegionCode+=itr.next();
                outScopeActiveRegionCode+=",";
             }

Answer 1

Id actually do it the other way around, id append the comma before on all cases except the first, its easier.

boolean isFirst = true;
while(itr.hasNext()) {
    if(isFirst) {
        isFirst = false;
    } else {
        outScopeActiveRegionCode+=",";
    }
    outScopeActiveRegionCode+=itr.next();
}

The reason for this is that it is much simpler to detect the first case than the last case.

Answer 2

I would do:

String delimiter = "";

while(itr.hasNext()){
    outScopeActiveRegionCode += delimiter;
    outScopeActiveRegionCode += itr.next();
    delimiter = ",";
}