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Re: case insensitive sort

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Roedy Green wrote:
> When someone asks for a case insensitive sort, they typically use code
> like this in the Comparator
> 
> return a.x.compareToIgnoreCase( b.x );
> 
> However than will not give you what you really want.  You probably
> want this if you want tidy-looking results.
> 
> int diff = a.x.compareToIgnoreCase( b );
> if ( diff != 0 ) return diff;
> return a.x.compareTo( b.x );

I think this needs more context. What is x? What are the types involved?
Why do you expect a.x and be to be comparable?

Patricia

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case insensitive sort Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-22 21:06 -0800
  Re: case insensitive sort Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-22 21:59 -0800
    Re: case insensitive sort v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2011-11-23 06:34 +0000
      Re: case insensitive sort Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-23 02:49 -0800
    Re: case insensitive sort Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-23 02:46 -0800
      Re: case insensitive sort Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-23 05:23 -0800
      Re: case insensitive sort v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2011-11-23 19:32 +0000
        Re: case insensitive sort dibs <dibs@dobs.dabs> - 2011-11-23 15:11 -0500
          Re: case insensitive sort v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2011-11-24 05:03 +0000
  Re: case insensitive sort Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-25 21:26 -0500
    Re: case insensitive sort Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-26 14:23 +0000
      Re: case insensitive sort Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 21:56 -0500
        Re: case insensitive sort Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-04 10:43 +0000

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