java.util.ConcurrentModificationException in Non Multithreaded Program

collections, java, java.util.concurrent, multithreading

Solution

You can modify the underlying `Collection` of the `Iterator` (which is hidden in the `for-each` loop). The proper way to do this is:

for (Iterator<PopulationMember> it = population.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
    PopulationMemeber p = it.next();
    int[] probs = ProbablityArrayDeath(GrowthRate,Death,(int)p.fitness());
    if (probs[RandomNumberGen.nextRandomInt(0, 99)] == 0) {
        it.remove();
    }
}

Problem

Hey SO Guru's im having one heck of a job with this code ``` public void kill(double GrowthRate, int Death) { int before = population.size(); for (PopulationMember p : population) { int[] probs = ProbablityArrayDeath(GrowthRate,Death,(int)p.fitness()); if (probs[RandomNumberGen.nextRandomInt(0, 99)]==0) { population.remove(p); } } System.out.println("Intial Population: "+before+", Deaths:"+(before- population.size())+", New Population: "+population.size()); } ``` When I run my program the first time it tries to run the code it hits this error ``` Exception in thread "main" java.util.ConcurrentModificationException at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextEntry(HashMap.java:793) at java.util.HashMap$KeyIterator.next(HashMap.java:828) at Genetics.Population.kill(Population.java:181) at Genetics.Population.run(Population.java:47) at Control.Main.main(Main.java:35) ``` Having goggled around a bit this seems to be an error that normally happens with threads why they try and access the same resource concurrently, but this is what getting me im not multithreading at all in this system. Can someone explain why this is happening, or think of a hack to get around it Many thanks ^_^

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