Ordering Lists of Lists (Table) by more than one column

[Daslan Govender]

Hi
I have a struture which is an ArrayList of String[]. I wish to sort
the String[0], String[1], etc.

Any Ideas?

Tks in Advance,
d

[Robert Waals]

The convenient way would (if your data comes from a database) to do the sorting in the SQL statement.

Otherwise check this site:
http://www.javaworld.com/ sorting

[Remko Strating]

An arraylist can be sorted by using the method

Collections.sort(ArraytoSort)
This wil sort the arraylist of strings in their natural order.

If you want to sort your own objects in JAVA you have to define your own Comparable interface which can sort over different columns because you have to define your own CompareTo method.

If you have different ways of sorting the best way is to define a Comparator so you can do the sorting with different Comparators.

Collections.sort(ArrayToSort, Comparator)

If the data retrieval is from one table of the database you can choose to do a data retrieval with each new sort order. This would be a performance issue if the dataretrieval is complex and you have to go everytime to the database.