Language-Sensitive String Comparisons - Java Language Basics

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Description

Language-Sensitive String Comparisons

Demo Code

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: ");
    print(diff, str1, str2);//from  w  w  w .j  a  v  a2s.  c  o m

    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 considered the same."   );
    }
  }
}

Result


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