Alphabetically sorting characters in a string

[Karsten Wutzke]

Hi all!

Is there an easy way of alphabetically sorting characters in a string? I
have a string like "xzya" and I want it to become "axyz".

Do I have to sort them manually?

Karsten

 

[Christophe Vanfleteren]

Hi all!

Is there an easy way of alphabetically sorting characters in a string? I
have a string like "xzya" and I want it to become "axyz".

Do I have to sort them manually?

Karsten

Something like

String unsorted = "xzya";
char[] content = unsorted.toCharArray();
java.util.Arrays.sort(content);
String sorted = new String(content);

should do the trick.

 

[Karsten Wutzke]

Karsten Wutzke wrote:
snip
Something like

String unsorted = "xzya";
char[] content = unsorted.toCharArray();
java.util.Arrays.sort(content);

Thanks! I didn't know that one...

Karsten

 

[Roedy Green]

Is there an easy way of alphabetically sorting characters in a string? I
have a string like "xzya" and I want it to become "axyz".

Do I have to sort them manually?

convert to an array of char. Then sort. Then convert back.


See http://mindprod.com/converter.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/sort.html