Re: working with lists

From:
Hendrik Maryns <hendrik_maryns@despammed.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:10:11 +0200
Message-ID:
<euqjij$9ep$2@newsserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
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black-white schreef:

Hello,

You misunderstood my question but thanks for answer anyway...


Please do not top-post.

I think /you/ misunderstood Dinesh???s solution. Have another look at it,
it does exactly what you asked. (You might want to have a look at
anonymous classes too, you can use one that implements Comparator in
Collections.sort(List, Comparator))

H.

CodeForTea@gmail.com wrote:

On Mar 31, 9:10 pm, black-white <black.white.1...@gmail.com> wrote:

hello,

I use Vector or ArrayList to store my objects.
However, sometimes I need to sort those lists with considering just one
value. Is that possible?

For example:

Class a{
int value1;
int value2;
String name;}

Vector myList=new Vector();
a object1=new a();
object1.fillValues(); //that gives some values to each variable...
myList.add(object1);
myList.add(object2);
.
.
.....
myList.add(object1000);

Now, how can I sort that list just considering value1 in all objects?


import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;

public class SortOnOneValue implements Comparable {
    int value1;
    int value2;
    public SortOnOneValue(int val1, int val2) {
        value1 = val1;
        value2 = val2;
    }

    public int compareTo(Object obj) {
        SortOnOneValue val = (SortOnOneValue) obj;
        return this.value1 - val.value1;
      }

    public String toString() {
        return "value1 = " + value1 + " value2 = " + value2;
    }

    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ArrayList myList =new ArrayList();
        myList.add(new SortOnOneValue(1,5));
        myList.add(new SortOnOneValue(5,5));
        myList.add(new SortOnOneValue(2,5));
        System.out.println(myList);
        Collections.sort(myList);
        System.out.println(myList);

    }

}
Dinesh


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