Functions on Iterables :: Consume

public class Functional
{
   /**
    * Consumes (removes) all items while iterating
    */

   public static <T> Iterable<T> consume(final Iterable<T> iterable)
   {
      if (iterable == null)
         throw new NullPointerException();

      return new Iterable<T>()
      {
         @Override
         public Iterator<T> iterator()
         {
            final Iterator<T> iterator = iterable.iterator();

            return new Iterator<T>()
            {
               @Override
               public boolean hasNext()
               {
                  return iterator.hasNext();
               }

               @Override
               public T next()
               {
                  T result = iterator.next();
                  iterator.remove();
                  return result;
               }

               @Override
               public void remove()
               {
                  throw new NoSuchElementException("already removed");
               }
            };
         }
      };
   }

To remove all short texts in a list:

List<String> data = ...;

Filter<String> shortText = new Filter<String>()
{
   public boolean accept(String item) { return item == null || item.length() <= 3; }
}

for(String item: consume(filter(data, shortText)))
{
   System.out.println("By the time you see this, '"+item+"' has been removed.");
}