Java - String Language-Sensitive Comparison

Introduction

The String class compares strings based on the Unicode values of their characters.

compare() method of the java.text.Collator class performs language-sensitive (dictionary order) string comparisons.

The method takes two strings to be compared as arguments.

It returns 0 if two strings are the same, 1 if the first string comes after the second, and -1 if the first string comes before the second.

The following code illustrates the use of the Collator class.

Demo

import java.text.Collator;
import java.util.Locale;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Create a Locale object for US
    Locale USLocale = new Locale("en", "US");

    // Get collator instance for US
    Collator c = Collator.getInstance(USLocale);
    String str1 = "cat";
    String str2 = "Dog";

    int diff = c.compare(str1, str2);

    System.out.print("Comparing using Collator class: ");
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    System.out.print("Comparing using String class: ");
    diff = str1.compareTo(str2);
    print(diff, str1, str2);
  }

  public static void print(int diff, String str1, String str2) {
    if (diff > 0) {
      System.out.println(str1 + " comes after " + str2);
    } else if (diff < 0) {
      System.out.println(str1 + " comes before " + str2);
    } else {
      System.out.println(str1 + " and " + str2 + " are the same.");
    }
  }
}

Java - String Language-Sensitive Comparison

Introduction

Demo

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