Array List Sorting Issue

Hi,

Recently, i was coding for an application and came across a problem where i need to sort an ArrayList in an alphabetical order. However, that sounded quite easy as because sorting can easy with single arraylist. But, i was in a situation where i had two different ArrayLists with multiple attributes. So, what i did is that i kept a delimeter to distinct all my 3 values and then i added them into a temporary list.

for(int j=0;j

{

myBean=(MyBean)myList.get(j);

tempList.add(myBean.getOne() + "*" + myBean.getTwo() + "*" + myBean.getThree());

} 

then i used collection's sort method to sort them up in an alphabetical form.

Collections.sort(tempList,new MyComparator());  

I used inner class called Mycomparator to compare.

 class MyComparator implements Comparator {   

         

         public int compare(Object o1,   

                            Object o2) {   

            String s1 = o1.toString().toUpperCase();   

            String s2 = o2.toString().toUpperCase();   

    

            int counter = 0;   

    

            for (counter=0;counter

                               !Character.isDigit(s1.charAt(counter));counter++);   

    

            String temp1 = s1.substring(counter);   

    

            s1 = s1.substring(0,counter);   

    

            for (counter=0;counter

                           !Character.isDigit(s2.charAt(counter));counter++);   

    

            String temp2 = s2.substring(counter);   

    

            s2 = s2.substring(0,counter);   

    

            int max = (temp1.length() > temp2.length()) ? temp1.length() : temp2.length();   

    

            char[] pad = new char[max-temp1.length()];   

    

            Arrays.fill(pad,(char)48);   

    

            temp1 = String.valueOf(pad) + temp1;   

    

            pad = new char[max-temp2.length()];   

    

            Arrays.fill(pad,(char)48);   

    

            temp2 = String.valueOf(pad) + temp2;   

    

            s1 = s1 + temp1;   

            s2 = s2 + temp2;   

    

            return(s1.compareTo(s2));   

         }   

    

         public boolean equals(Object o1,   

                               Object o2) {   

            String s1 = o1.toString();   

            String s2 = o2.toString();   

    

            return(s1.equals(s2));   

         }   

    

      }   

And finally,. the problem got resolved, i got my list ordered in alphabetical form.