public class RangeExtraction { public static void main(String[] args) { int[] arr = {0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39}; int len = arr.length; int idx = 0, idx2 = 0; while (idx < len) { while (++idx2 < len && arr[idx2] - arr[idx2 - 1] == 1); if (idx2 - idx > 2) { System.out.printf("%s-%s,", arr[idx], arr[idx2 - 1]); idx = idx2; } else { for (; idx < idx2; idx++) System.out.printf("%s,", arr[idx]); } } } }