How to get unique values from array

Question

I have an Array from which i want to remove Duplicate items.

for(int data1=startpos;data1<=lastrow;data1++) {
    String movie_soundtrk=cells.getCell(data1,Mmovie_sndtrk_cl).getValue().toString();
    al.add(movie_soundtrk);
}

String commaSeparated=al.toString();
String [] items = commaSeparated.split(",");
String[] trimmedArray = new String[items.length];
for (int i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
    trimmedArray[i] = items[i].trim();
}

Set<String> set = new HashSet<String>();
Collections.addAll(set, trimmedArray);

System.out.println(set);

But this is not giving me unique Values from Array.

My Array:- {English, French, Japanese, Russian, Chinese Subtitles,English, French, Japanese, Russian, Chinese Subtitles}

Out Put :- [Japanese, Russian, French, Chinese Subtitles], Chinese Subtitles, [English, English]

Answer 1

You can do it in one line in java 7:

String[] unique = new HashSet<String>(Arrays.asList(array)).toArray(new String[0]);

and shorter and simpler in java 8:

String[] unique = Arrays.stream(array).distinct().toArray(String[]::new);

Answer 2

HashSet will do the job.

You can try this:

List<String> newList = new ArrayList<String>(new HashSet<String>(oldList));