Package net.sf.saxon.sort

Class LowercaseFirstComparer

java.lang.Object

net.sf.saxon.sort.LowercaseFirstComparer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Comparator

public class LowercaseFirstComparer
extends Object
implements Comparator, Serializable

A Comparer used for comparing keys

Author:

Michael H. Kay

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
LowercaseFirstComparer(Comparator base)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	compare(Object a, Object b)	Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring case, in which case lowercase 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, reversed, thenComparing, thenComparing, thenComparing, thenComparingDouble, thenComparingInt, thenComparingLong

Constructor Details

LowercaseFirstComparer

public LowercaseFirstComparer(Comparator base)

Method Details

compare

public int compare(Object a,
 Object b)

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

Specified by:

compare in interface Comparator

Returns:

invalid input: '<'0 if ainvalid input: '<'b, 0 if a=b, >0 if a>b

Throws:

ClassCastException - if the objects are of the wrong type for this Comparer