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hi!
How can you arrange words in ascending order ignoring the case?
I always get an order in which words that start with an uppercase letter are on top.
example: Z,a,b,c,E
result: E,Z,a,b,c
here's my partial code
Collections.sort( ListOfNames );
Iterator firstName = ListOfNames.iterator();
while ( firstName.hasNext() )
{
System.out.println( firstName.next() );
}
Thanks!
Panday
 
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Panday
What you need to do is sort the Strings ignoring case. If your going to use the sort method then you might want to use the overloaded form that takes a list and a comparator. The comparator lets you define your own comparison criteria the sort method then uses that to sort your list.
Your comparator would look something like this:

This is an adaptation of an old utility class I had made and used inner classes to facilitate this.
Then in your code just send the sort method your lsit and the comparator.
hope that helped

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Thanks Dave!
 
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Collections.sort( ListOfNames , String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);
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