I need the String alphabetic sorting iReport does!

[victorg]

 Hi

I was trying to write, without luck, a particular String alphabetic sorting algorithm in Java.

Not everybody interprets alphanumeric sorting same way, specially when dealing with non-english characters.

I found that iReport, in a particular scenario, does sorting exactly the way I was looking for and I would be very grateful to know how did you achieve this.

the scenario is, from iReport Report Query dialog:

• XPath query
• source XML
• field type: java.lang.String
• sort by field, ascending

who exactly is performing this sorting? the xpath engine? is implemented in JasperReports engine code in java?

can I do it in Java?

thanks

Victor

Post Edited by victorg at 03/22/2012 15:38

[victorg]

 found!

java.text.Collator is my friend

example for alphabetic sorting according to a specific language:

 

 

Collator collator = Collator.getInstance(new Locale("US-en"));

Collections.sort(myStringList, collator);

 

thanks anyway

 

Victor

 

Post Edited by victorg at 03/22/2012 16:18