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From: bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com>
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Subject: verbose sort
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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?