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Android ignore case when sorting list

I have a List named path I'm currently sorting my strings with the following code

  java.util.Collections.sort(path);

That is working fine it sorts my list however it treats the cases of the first letter differently that is it sorts the list with upper-case letters and then sorts the list with lower-case letters after so if I had the following cat dog Bird Zebra it would sort it like

Bird
Zebra
dog
cat

so how do I ignore case so that dog and cat would come before Zebra but after Bird? Thank you for any help

Solution

  • Create a custom comparator class:

    import java.util.Comparator;

class IgnoreCaseComparator implements Comparator<String> {
  public int compare(String strA, String strB) {
    return strA.compareToIgnoreCase(strB);
  }
}

    Then on your sort:

    IgnoreCaseComparator icc = new IgnoreCaseComparator();

java.util.Collections.sort(path,icc);