net.sf.saxon.sort
Class UppercaseFirstComparer

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.saxon.sort.UppercaseFirstComparer

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.util.Comparator, java.io.Serializable

public class UppercaseFirstComparer

extends java.lang.Object

implements java.util.Comparator, java.io.Serializable

A Comparer used for comparing strings, with upper case collated before lower case if the strings are otherwise equal. This is implemented as a wrapper around a collator that compares the strings ignoring case.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

UppercaseFirstComparer(java.util.Comparator base)

Method Summary

int	compare(java.lang.Object a, java.lang.Object b) Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring case, in which case uppercase comes first.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Comparator

equals

Constructor Detail

UppercaseFirstComparer

public UppercaseFirstComparer(java.util.Comparator base)

Method Detail

compare

public int compare(java.lang.Object a,
                   java.lang.Object b)

Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring case, in which case uppercase comes first.

Specified by:

compare in interface java.util.Comparator

Returns:

<0 if a0 if a>b

Throws:

java.lang.ClassCastException - if the objects do not implement the CharSequence interface