Re: sort list

On 19 Sep 2005 08:41:11 -0700, vincent.fayolle@xxxxxxxxx wrote or
quoted :

>I have one list who contains other lists :
>
>
>Like :
>
>myList(
>{"Stephan","GUINVER",16,76},
>{"John","KENEDY",34,45},
>{"ELSA","ARMBRUSTER",8,64}
>}
>
>What is the syntax to sort this list by firstname or lastname or age

I would create an Person object with firstName, Surname, birthDate
(not age which goes stale daily) etc. fields. Then you can store the
objects in any sort of Collection. see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/collection.html

If you define a Comparable natural order, the various sorted
Collections will keep things in order for you, or you can sort
explicitly an ArrayList or array. You can define an alternate order
with a Comparator.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/sort.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/comparable.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/compartor.html


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