Sorting alphanumeric strings java

Question

I have this array storing the suffix of some URLs the user is adding:

[U2, U3, U1, U5, U8, U4, U7, U6]

When I do this:

for          


        

Answer 1

Just use Collections.sort() method after creating an ArrayList of your values like this:

ArrayList a = new ArrayList();
a.add("U2");
a.add("U1");
a.add("U5");
a.add("U4");
a.add("U3");
System.out.println("Before : "+a);
Collections.sort(a);
System.out.println("After : "+a);

Output :

Before : [U2, U1, U5, U4, U3]
After : [U1, U2, U3, U4, U5]