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

On 8/2/2012 10:59 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:

> On 8/2/2012 1:19 PM, markspace wrote:
>>    Collections.sort( my_list, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER );

>
>      Throws NullPointerException if the list has any nulls.
>


That's unfortunate.  I thought there were more "pre-made" Comparators, but 
couldn't find any.  That too bad too, some wrappers would handle a large number 
of situations, including null checks.

I really thought there were more Comparators in the API, I might just be 
missing them.

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