How to sort a List/ArrayList?
To sort a List
or ArrayList in Java, you can use the sort
method of the Collections
class from the java.util
package. The sort
method takes a List
and sorts it in ascending order according to the natural ordering of its elements.
Here's an example of how you can use the sort
method to sort an ArrayList:
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Create an ArrayList
List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
list.add(3);
list.add(1);
list.add(2);
// Sort the ArrayList
Collections.sort(list);
// Print the sorted ArrayList
for (int i : list) {
System.out.println(i);
}
}
}
This code will print the following output:
1 2 3
Note that the sort
method only works if the elements in the List
implement the Comparable
interface. If the elements do not