Can you name the main intermediate operations used for data processing or in streams?

In Java, intermediate operations are used to process data in streams, which return a new stream and allow chaining transformations.

Main intermediate operations:

• map — transforms each element of the stream by applying a function.
• filter — filters elements based on a condition.
• flatMap — transforms each element into a stream and merges them into a single stream.
• distinct — removes duplicates.
• sorted — sorts the elements.
• limit — limits the number of elements.
• skip — skips a specified number of elements.

Example:

List<String> names = Arrays.asList("Anna", "Bob", "Alice", "Brian");

List<String> filtered = names.stream()
    .filter(name -> name.startsWith("A"))
    .map(String::toUpperCase)
    .sorted()
    .collect(Collectors.toList());

System.out.println(filtered); // [ALICE, ANNA]

Here, we filtered names starting with "A", converted them to uppercase, and sorted them.