Java Collections .reverseOrder ( Comparator <T> cmp)
Syntax
Collections.reverseOrder(Comparator <T> cmp) has the following syntax.
public static <T> Comparator <T> reverseOrder(Comparator <T> cmp)
Example
In the following code shows how to use Collections.reverseOrder(Comparator <T> cmp) method.
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
//from w w w . java 2 s . c o m
public class Main {
public static void main(String args[]) {
// create linked list object
List<Integer> list = new LinkedList<Integer> ();
// populate the list
list.add(-2);
list.add(2);
list.add(-12);
list.add(8);
// create comparator for reverse order
Comparator cmp = Collections.reverseOrder(Collections.reverseOrder());
// sort the list
Collections.sort(list, cmp);
System.out.println(list);
}
}
The code above generates the following result.
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