com.icl.saxon.sort

Class LowercaseFirstComparer

public class LowercaseFirstComparer extends Comparer

A Comparer used for comparing keys

Author: Michael H. Kay

Method Summary
intcompare(Object a, Object b)
Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring case, in which case lowercase comes first.

Method Detail

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.

Returns: <0 if a0 if a>b

Throws: ClassCastException if the objects are of the wrong type for this Comparer