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Re: case insensitive sort

From v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert)
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: case insensitive sort
Date 2011-11-23 19:32 +0000
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Roedy Green wrote:

> The only beast I know of that takes a compareIgnoreCase is a String.

What about Collator?

And the generalized idea - try to establish a time invariant total
ordering if possible - is also worth keeping in mind, for any objects:
If one attribute or comparator compares equal, additionally use another.   

(If only to reliably avoid lock acquisition order problems.)

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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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