Question

I am trying to sort my ArrayList, but when I check the first item in my supposedly sorted array, it is incorrect. I am not sure why? Am I missing anything?

Here is my Comparator:

package org.stocktwits.helper;

import java.util.Comparator;

import org.stocktwits.model.Quote;

public class NameComparator implements Comparator<Quote>
{

    public int compare(Quote o1, Quote o2) {
        return o1.getName().compareToIgnoreCase( o2.getName());
    }
}

Here is how I perform the actual sort:

Collections.sort(quotes, new NameComparator());

Here is my test data

quotes = ["Yahoo", "Microsoft", "Apple"]

After sorting I want it to be:

quotes = ["Apple", "Microsoft", "Yahoo"]`

However when I pull out the first item after the sort, I get: "Yahoo"

Answer 1

Your code works. It must be somewhere else.
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