Comparing strings by their alphabetical order

Question

String s1 = \"Project\";
String s2 = \"Sunject\";

I want to compare the two above string by their alphabetic order (which in this case \"Project\"

Answer 1

Take a look at the String.compareTo method.

s1.compareTo(s2)

From the javadocs:

The result is a negative integer if this String object lexicographically precedes the argument string. The result is a positive integer if this String object lexicographically follows the argument string. The result is zero if the strings are equal; compareTo returns 0 exactly when the equals(Object) method would return true.