java foreach skip first iteration

Use Guava Iterables.skip().

Something like:

for ( Car car : Iterables.skip(cars, 1) ) {     
    // 1st element will be skipped
}

(Got this from the end of msandiford's answer and wanted to make it a standalone answer)

I wouldn't call it elegant, but perhaps better than using a "first" boolean:

for ( Car car : cars.subList( 1, cars.size() ) )
{
   .
   .
}

Other than that, probably no elegant method.

With new Java 8 Stream API it actually becomes very elegant. Just use skip() method:

cars.stream().skip(1) // and then operations on remaining cars

for (Car car : cars)
{
   if (car == cars[0]) continue;
   ...
}

Elegant enough for me.

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