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Java program to remove all elements from an ArrayList

In this Java program, we are going to learn how to remove all elements from an ArrayList? Here, we are using ArrayList.clear() to remove all elements.
Submitted by IncludeHelp, on October 21, 2017

Given an ArrayList, and we have to remove/clear all elements using Java program.

ArrayList.clear()

This method is used to clear/remove all elements from an ArrayList.

In this program, we have 5 elements which have been added in the ArrayList, the elements are 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500. So, total numbers of elements are 5 and after removing all the elements ArrayList, total number of elements will be 0.

Consider the program

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class RemoveAllElements{
	public static void main(String []args){
		//ArrayList object
		ArrayList arrList = new ArrayList();

		//Add elements to Arraylist
		arrList.add("100");
		arrList.add("200");
		arrList.add("300");
		arrList.add("400");
		arrList.add("500");

		System.out.println("Total number of elements in ArrayList: "
			+ arrList.size());
		//remove all elements using clear() method
		arrList.clear();
		System.out.println("Total number of elements in ArrayList: "
			+ arrList.size());
	}
}

Output

Total number of elements in ArrayList: 5
Total number of elements in ArrayList: 0

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