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From: bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com>
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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:
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> >
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> > Vector<String> my_list = new Vector<String>();
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> >
> 
> >
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> > 		Comparator<String> c = new Comparator<String>() {
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> > 			@Override
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> > 			public int compare(String object1, String object2) {
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> > 				if (object1 == null)
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> > 					return -1;
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> > 				if (object2 == null)
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> > 					return 1;
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> > 				object1 = object1.toLowerCase();
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> > 				object2 = object2.toLowerCase();
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> > 				return object1.compareTo(object2);
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> > 			};
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> > 		};
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> >
> 
> > Collections.sort(my_list, c);
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> >
> 
> >
> 
> > 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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> >
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> 
> 
> 
> 
>    Collections.sort( my_list, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER );

Very nice, thanks.