Do You Know The code in java that sorts characters...?

Question

The problem is i need to sort names not using compareto and sort functions... our professor told that we must put the names in arrays of characters and sort it... but i dont know how to sort characters.. Can I use < and > in Sorting characters??

Answer 1

Yes, you can use &lt; and &gt; to sort chars. Note that they will sort according to their rank in UNICODE, so watch for anomolies like a &gt; B and such. One common trick when sorting strings char by char is to promote the chars to uppercase, then sort.