//: containers/ListSortSearch.java // ©2015 MindView LLC: see Copyright.txt // Sorting and searching Lists with Collections utilities. import java.util.*; import static net.mindview.util.Print.*; public class ListSortSearch { public static void main(String[] args) { List list = new ArrayList<>(Utilities.list); list.addAll(Utilities.list); print(list); Collections.shuffle(list, new Random(47)); print("Shuffled: " + list); // Use a ListIterator to trim off the last elements: ListIterator it = list.listIterator(10); while(it.hasNext()) { it.next(); it.remove(); } print("Trimmed: " + list); Collections.sort(list); print("Sorted: " + list); String key = list.get(7); int index = Collections.binarySearch(list, key); print("Location of " + key + " is " + index + ", list.get(" + index + ") = " + list.get(index)); Collections.sort(list, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER); print("Case-insensitive sorted: " + list); key = list.get(7); index = Collections.binarySearch(list, key, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER); print("Location of " + key + " is " + index + ", list.get(" + index + ") = " + list.get(index)); } } /* Output: [one, Two, three, Four, five, six, one, one, Two, three, Four, five, six, one] Shuffled: [Four, five, one, one, Two, six, six, three, three, five, Four, Two, one, one] Trimmed: [Four, five, one, one, Two, six, six, three, three, five] Sorted: [Four, Two, five, five, one, one, six, six, three, three] Location of six is 7, list.get(7) = six Case-insensitive sorted: [five, five, Four, one, one, six, six, three, three, Two] Location of three is 7, list.get(7) = three *///:~