Re: Way to sort / enforce order for Map.entrySet?
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Mike Schilling wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
I have a terrible vice of optimism. I think that for someone who
doesn't know about the collections API, and hasn't built up a general
understanding of the 'Tao of Java', if you will, that will let them
grok it from reading the docs, advice such as you gave, correct
though it is, might as well be in Greek. In that case, a picture is
worth a thousand words, and in programming a picture is a snippet.
Good Lodr, Tom, are you really suggesting that it isn't intuitively obvious
to the rawest beginner that the new set should be created via
SortedSet<Map.Entry<String, String>> results =
new TreeSet<Map.Entry<String, String>>(
new Comparator <Map.Entry<String, String>>()
{... };
You're right, Mike, absurd, what was i thinking.
tom
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