Syntax error How to sort an array with customized Comparator in Java?

How to sort an array with customized Comparator in Java?

Let’s say the following is our string array and we need to sort it:

String[] str = { "Tom", "Jack", "Harry", "Zen", "Tim", "David" };

Within the sort() method, create a customized comparator to sort the above string. Here, two strings are compared with each other and the process goes on:

Arrays.sort(str, new Comparator < String > () {
   public int compare(String one, String two) {
      int val = two.length() - one.length();
      if (val == 0)
      val = one.compareToIgnoreCase(two);
      return val;
   }
});

Example

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;
public class Demo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      String[] str = { "Tom", "Jack", "Harry", "Zen", "Tim", "David" };
      System.out.println("Array...");
      for (String res : str)
         System.out.print(res + " ");
      Arrays.sort(str, new Comparator<String>() {
         public int compare(String one, String two) {
            int val = two.length() - one.length();
            if (val == 0)
               val = one.compareToIgnoreCase(two);
            return val;
         }
      });
      System.out.println("\nSorted array...");
      for (String res : str)
      System.out.print(res + " ");
   }
}

Output

Array...
Tom Jack Harry Zen Tim David
Sorted array...
David Harry Jack Tim Tom Zen
Updated on: 2019-07-30T22:30:25+05:30

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