Re: verbose sort

From:
"Eric Sosman" <eric.sosman@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:12:04 GMT
Message-ID:
<501ACE76.55958.calajapr@time.synchro.net>
  To: markspace
From: Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>

On 8/2/2012 1:19 PM, markspace wrote:

On 8/2/2012 8:37 AM, bob smith wrote:

I have some code that sorts a list like so:

Vector<String> my_list = new Vector<String>();

        Comparator<String> c = new Comparator<String>() {
            @Override
            public int compare(String object1, String object2) {
                if (object1 == null)
                    return -1;
                if (object2 == null)
                    return 1;
                object1 = object1.toLowerCase();
                object2 = object2.toLowerCase();
                return object1.compareTo(object2);
            };
        };

Collections.sort(my_list, c);

This seems like a lot of code for such a common operation.

 > Is there a more succinct way of doing this?

   Collections.sort( my_list, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER );


     Throws NullPointerException if the list has any nulls.

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Eric Sosman
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