Java tutorial
// : c11:Utilities.java // Simple demonstrations of the Collections utilities. // From 'Thinking in Java, 3rd ed.' (c) Bruce Eckel 2002 // www.BruceEckel.com. See copyright notice in CopyRight.txt. import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.Comparator; import java.util.Enumeration; import java.util.List; import java.util.Vector; public class Utilities { public static void main(String[] args) { List list = Arrays.asList("one Two three Four five six one".split(" ")); System.out.println(list); System.out.println("max: " + Collections.max(list)); System.out.println("min: " + Collections.min(list)); AlphabeticComparator comp = new AlphabeticComparator(); System.out.println("max w/ comparator: " + Collections.max(list, comp)); System.out.println("min w/ comparator: " + Collections.min(list, comp)); List sublist = Arrays.asList("Four five six".split(" ")); System.out.println("indexOfSubList: " + Collections.indexOfSubList(list, sublist)); System.out.println("lastIndexOfSubList: " + Collections.lastIndexOfSubList(list, sublist)); Collections.replaceAll(list, "one", "Yo"); System.out.println("replaceAll: " + list); Collections.reverse(list); System.out.println("reverse: " + list); Collections.rotate(list, 3); System.out.println("rotate: " + list); List source = Arrays.asList("in the matrix".split(" ")); Collections.copy(list, source); System.out.println("copy: " + list); Collections.swap(list, 0, list.size() - 1); System.out.println("swap: " + list); Collections.fill(list, "pop"); System.out.println("fill: " + list); List dups = Collections.nCopies(3, "snap"); System.out.println("dups: " + dups); // Getting an old-style Enumeration: Enumeration e = Collections.enumeration(dups); Vector v = new Vector(); while (e.hasMoreElements()) v.addElement(e.nextElement()); // Converting an old-style Vector // to a List via an Enumeration: ArrayList arrayList = Collections.list(v.elements()); System.out.println("arrayList: " + arrayList); } } ///:~ class AlphabeticComparator implements Comparator { public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) { String s1 = (String) o1; String s2 = (String) o2; return s1.toLowerCase().compareTo(s2.toLowerCase()); } } ///:~