Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:23:19 -0600 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:23:16 -0800 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: case insensitive sort References: <6vqdnf10be9KFlHTnZ2dnUVZ_rudnZ2d@earthlink.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.230.194.31 X-Trace: sv3-TRiKgxoxNVpdufK8Pwcv5leeBhdrSmB5ZT2yAi6sP3nhqOJd9x0u/6AYeIloPqLtUaBcqoNXLAkOtN/!LhA15Lkm/V9IAohkKnRM6AV1ay5djg6DfQQQ0zhwhftMrKiUadUAYl5ow2xxPaLzQ9OyUwiL02p9!agPP6KHCCnUOydxsyQ5OkTz0AJ9P2tOT3eQ5w+M12054sw== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1727 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10193 Roedy Green wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:59:50 -0800, Patricia Shanahan > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >> 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? > > The only beast I know of that takes a compareIgnoreCase is a String. I was confused by the typo, which made it look as though you were applying compareIgnoreCase to something that has a field x. Patricia