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From: "bob smith" <bob.smith@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this>
Subject: verbose sort
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From: bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com>

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?

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