Java - Sort list in ascending order by element's length using sort() method from List interface

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Description

Sort list in ascending order by element's length using sort() method from List interface

Demo

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.List;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
    list.add("XML");
    list.add("Javascript");
    list.add("Json");
    list.add("Java");

    System.out.println("List: " + list);

    // Uses List.sort() method with a Comparator
    list.sort(Comparator.comparing(String::length));

    System.out.println("Sorted List: " + list);
  }//from   w w w  .j  av  a2 s. c o m
}

Result

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