ordering values in Arraylist

[Sherif Shehab]

Hi Guys ,

i got an ArrayList contains these values

 Financing Products , Financing Products-product 1,Financing Products-product 2,Financing Products-product 3, Financial Products Status , Financial Status - status 1 ,Financial Status - status  2,Financial Status - status  3

but the values are messed up , i wanna order them to be in this order

Financing Products
  Financing Products-product 1
  Financing Products-product 2
  Financing Products-product 3
Financial Products Status
  Financial Status - status 1
  Financial Status - status 2
  Financial Status - status 3

Any ideas to achieve this ?

[Joanne Neal]

There are methods for sorting Lists in the Collections class

[Sherif Shehab]

Joanne Neal wrote:There are methods for sorting Lists in the Collections class

but this mentioned in the documentation

Sorts the specified list into ascending order, according to the natural ordering of its elements

so this will not make it in the order i need above ..

[Rob Spoor]

Then check the other sort method, which takes a java.util.Comparator. Implement your own Comparator class that does the sorting for you.

[Joanne Neal]

Sherif Shehab wrote:but this mentioned in the documentation

Sorts the specified list into ascending order, according to the natural ordering of its elements

so this will not make it in the order i need above ..

Note that I said there are methods for sorting. Try taking a look at the other one.

[Campbell Ritchie]

That looks like a tree; maybe you should to work out how to associate a FinancialStatus object with a List<FinanceStatus>.