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I have no idea how to do this one. I need a simple code that will take a listModel and alphabetize the items. I would like it if it could do it with the first letter and last letter, seperatly of course.
Any suggestions or advise would be great.
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You'll want to use java.util.Comparator and java.lang.Comparable. You can write a comparator to sort a java Collection in any way you see fit. You can also use the Comparator to instantiate sorted collections so you don't have to sort things all at once, they get inserted into their sorted positions at the time of insertion. Or, many classes already implement the Comparable interface so they have a "natural ordering". Strings have this capability already...

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