C# sort Arraylist strings alphabetical and on length

Question

I\'m trying to sort an ArrayList of String.

Given:

{A,C,AA,B,CC,BB}

Arraylist.Sort gives:

Answer 1

This is kind of old school but, I went the IComparer Interface . . .

public class SortAlphabetLength : System.Collections.IComparer
{
    public int Compare(Object x, Object y)
    {
        if (x.ToString().Length == y.ToString().Length)
            return string.Compare(x.ToString(), y.ToString());
        else if (x.ToString().Length > y.ToString().Length)
            return 1;
        else
            return -1;
    }
}

and then test it . . .

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        ArrayList values = new ArrayList()
        {
            "A","AA","B","BB","C","CC"
        };

        SortAlphabetLength alphaLen = new SortAlphabetLength();
        values.Sort(alphaLen);

        foreach (string itm in values)
            Console.WriteLine(itm);
    }
}

output:

A
B
C
AA
BB
CC