Re: verbose sort

From:
"Lew" <lew@1:261/38.remove-yy0-this>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:54:15 GMT
Message-ID:
<501C1564.56022.calajapr@time.synchro.net>
  To: bob smith
From: Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>

 bob smith wrote:

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?

Others have shown ways to shorten this, but I'm curious.

"Seems" - such a duck-and-cover word. You made an assessment. Based on what
criteria?

What is "a lot"?

You could write a cover method.

Apache Commons might have a utility class for that.

--
Lew

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