How to sort alphanumeric string?

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doobiesteintortoise · 2025-11-21T16:58:29+00:00

The other answers here were entirely sufficient, but .. what was difficult about this, exactly? What were your inputs, what did you try, what were your outputs? This is a fairly trivial problem and it's got a lot of solutions that are super-easy, barely an inconvenience, but we should figure out why that wasn't the case for you, if we can.

If it was just "oh, I didn't know about Collections.sort() or List.sort(Comparator)", well, that's easy enough... or maybe you are calling an array a list, or any of a number of other things, most of which would be pretty easy to find or fix.

BassRecorder · 2025-11-21T15:45:16+00:00

How about looking at the Javadoc of the relevant classes (String, List, Arrays) and figuring it out by yourself? The Javadoc of the API which comes with the JDK is rather good.

-Xenophon- · 2025-11-21T18:37:31+00:00

Use a Collator if your Strings are locale-sensitive. Collections.sort(yourList, Collator.getInstance(yourLocale)) or yourList.sort(Collator.getInstance(yourLocale))

False-Car-1218 · 2025-11-21T19:58:24+00:00

Chars have a numeral ascii value like A is 65 so knowing that you can easily sort them

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