com.icl.saxon.sort
Class Compare_en
java.lang.Object
com.icl.saxon.sort.Comparer
com.icl.saxon.sort.TextComparer
com.icl.saxon.sort.Compare_en
public class Compare_en
- extends TextComparer
A Comparer used with lang="en". Note this only does anything intelligent with characters
in ISO 8859/1, which are mapped to their unaccented equivalents
- Author:
- Michael H. Kay
Field Summary |
(package private) int |
caseOrder
|
Method Summary |
int |
compare(Object a,
Object b)
Compare two string objects, in three phases:
(a) ignoring accents and case
(b) if still equal, ignoring case
(c) if still equal, taking case into account |
Comparer |
setCaseOrder(int caseOrder)
Set case order |
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
caseOrder
int caseOrder
Compare_en
public Compare_en()
compare
public int compare(Object a,
Object b)
- Compare two string objects, in three phases:
(a) ignoring accents and case
(b) if still equal, ignoring case
(c) if still equal, taking case into account
- Specified by:
compare
in class Comparer
- Returns:
- <0 if a0 if a>b
setCaseOrder
public Comparer setCaseOrder(int caseOrder)
- Description copied from class:
TextComparer
- Set case order
- Overrides:
setCaseOrder
in class TextComparer
- Parameters:
caseOrder
- one of DEFAULT_CASE_ORDER, LOWERCASE_FIRST, or UPPERCASE_FIRST.
Indicates whether upper case letters precede or follow lower case letters in the ordering
- Returns:
- either this or a different Comparer that will be used to perform the comparisons.
This allows the TextComparer to delegate the comparison to a Comparer dedicated to a
specific case order.