When You Go Rookie and Forget that Arrays Have Indices

You get really lousy code - Rube Goldberg code, that's what 😊

You have to find a figure-of-merit that is the best from a list and then get the object with that FOM. You can, but I forgot that, in an ArrayList, the index is all you need 😊

And, having forgotten, I ended up with :

for( int i=0; i<howMany; i++){

double leastDist = 30000000; // meters

double distance;

for( QuakeEntry qe : copy ){

distance = current.distanceTo( qe.getLocation() );

if( distance < leastDist ){

leastDist = distance;

}

}

for( QuakeEntry qe : quakeData ){

distance = current.distanceTo( qe.getLocation() );

if( Math.abs( distance - leastDist) < 1 ){

copy.remove(qe);

ret.add(qe);

}

}

}

When all I really needed was :

for( int i=0; i<howMany; i++){

int minIndex = 0; // start with the first

double distance;

for( int k=1; k<copy.size(); k++ ){

distance = current.distanceTo( copy.get(k).getLocation() );

if( distance < current.distanceTo(copy.get(minIndex).getLocation() ) ){

minIndex = k;

}

}

ret.add(copy.get(minIndex));

copy.remove(minIndex);

}