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From: "Eric Sosman" <eric.sosman@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this>
Subject: Re: verbose sort
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  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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