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From: "Daniel Pitts" <daniel.pitts@1:261/38.remove-yy0-this>
Subject: Re: verbose sort
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Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:54:14 GMT
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  To: markspace
From: Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>

On 8/2/12 11:14 AM, markspace wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
I believe Apache Commons has a bunch of useful generic Comparator 
implementations.

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