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Re: verbose sort

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From bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: verbose sort
Date Thu, 2 Aug 2012 15:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:19:50 PM UTC-5, 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 );

Very nice, thanks.

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verbose sort bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-08-02 08:37 -0700
  Re: verbose sort Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-08-02 12:28 -0400
  Re: verbose sort markspace <-@.> - 2012-08-02 10:19 -0700
    Re: verbose sort Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-08-02 13:59 -0400
      Re: verbose sort markspace <-@.> - 2012-08-02 11:14 -0700
        Re: verbose sort Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-08-02 13:38 -0700
    Re: verbose sort bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-08-02 15:19 -0700
  Re: verbose sort Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-08-02 14:15 -0700
  Re: verbose sort Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-08-03 01:37 -0700

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