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prady-cmprady-cm 

Sort a list of subfamily names

i have a list of sub family names which i am sorting using list.sort()

The subfamily names are like

familyname - 1 - parts
familyname - 2 - parts1
familyname - 3 - parts2
familyname - 11 - parts2

So when i sort, the result is like this

familyname - 1 - parts
familyname - 11 - parts2
familyname - 2 - parts1
familyname - 3 - parts2

We have familyname - 11 - parts2 coming after familyname - 1 - parts which is understandable as its sorting as a string.

Is there workaround over this? One way i am thinking is to split the string, store the number into a map with number and the family name. But this approach would fail, when i have another like familyname2 - 1 - parts

Any thoughts?

ForcepowerForcepower

prady,

 

I think what you need is a wrapper class around these strings that implements the Comparable interface. Then you can implement the compareTo method to return exactly what you need. You'll need to load your list with this wrapper class objects and then invoke sort.

 

    public Integer compareTo(Object compareToPartObj) {
   
        PartsString compareToPart = (PartsString)compareToPartObj;
        
        // The return value of 0 indicates that both elements are equal.
    
        Integer returnValue = 0;  // equal
        if (your comparison here) {
            // Set return value to a positive value.
    
            returnValue = 1;  // this greater than other
        } else if (some other comparison) {
            // Set return value to a negative value.
    
            returnValue = -1; //other > this
        }
        
        return returnValue;       
    }

 

Best,

Ram