Class UTF16.StringComparator

java.lang.Object
com.ibm.icu.text.UTF16.StringComparator
All Implemented Interfaces:
Comparator<String>
Enclosing class:
UTF16

public static final class UTF16.StringComparator extends Object implements Comparator<String>

UTF16 string comparator class. Allows UTF16 string comparison to be done with the various modes

  • Code point comparison or code unit comparison
  • Case sensitive comparison, case insensitive comparison or case insensitive comparison with special handling for character 'i'.

The code unit or code point comparison differ only when comparing supplementary code points (\u10000..\u10ffff) to BMP code points near the end of the BMP (i.e., \ue000..\uffff). In code unit comparison, high BMP code points sort after supplementary code points because they are stored as pairs of surrogates which are at \ud800..\udfff.

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  • Field Details

    • FOLD_CASE_DEFAULT

      public static final int FOLD_CASE_DEFAULT
      Option value for case folding comparison:

      Comparison is case insensitive, strings are folded using default mappings defined in Unicode data file CaseFolding.txt, before comparison.

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    • FOLD_CASE_EXCLUDE_SPECIAL_I

      public static final int FOLD_CASE_EXCLUDE_SPECIAL_I
      Option value for case folding: Use the modified set of mappings provided in CaseFolding.txt to handle dotted I and dotless i appropriately for Turkic languages (tr, az).

      Comparison is case insensitive, strings are folded using modified mappings defined in Unicode data file CaseFolding.txt, before comparison.

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  • Constructor Details

    • StringComparator

      public StringComparator()
      Default constructor that does code unit comparison and case sensitive comparison.
    • StringComparator

      public StringComparator(boolean codepointcompare, boolean ignorecase, int foldcaseoption)
      Constructor that does comparison based on the argument options.
      Parameters:
      codepointcompare - Flag to indicate true for code point comparison or false for code unit comparison.
      ignorecase - False for case sensitive comparison, true for case-insensitive comparison
      foldcaseoption - FOLD_CASE_DEFAULT or FOLD_CASE_EXCLUDE_SPECIAL_I. This option is used only when ignorecase is set to true. If ignorecase is false, this option is ignored.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If foldcaseoption is out of range
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  • Method Details

    • setCodePointCompare

      public void setCodePointCompare(boolean flag)
      Sets the comparison mode to code point compare if flag is true. Otherwise comparison mode is set to code unit compare
      Parameters:
      flag - True for code point compare, false for code unit compare
    • setIgnoreCase

      public void setIgnoreCase(boolean ignorecase, int foldcaseoption)
      Sets the Comparator to case-insensitive comparison mode if argument is true, otherwise case sensitive comparison mode if set to false.
      Parameters:
      ignorecase - True for case-insensitive comparison, false for case sensitive comparison
      foldcaseoption - FOLD_CASE_DEFAULT or FOLD_CASE_EXCLUDE_SPECIAL_I. This option is used only when ignorecase is set to true. If ignorecase is false, this option is ignored.
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    • getCodePointCompare

      public boolean getCodePointCompare()
      Checks if the comparison mode is code point compare.
      Returns:
      true for code point compare, false for code unit compare
    • getIgnoreCase

      public boolean getIgnoreCase()
      Checks if Comparator is in the case insensitive mode.
      Returns:
      true if Comparator performs case insensitive comparison, false otherwise
    • getIgnoreCaseOption

      public int getIgnoreCaseOption()
      Gets the fold case options set in Comparator to be used with case insensitive comparison.
      Returns:
      either FOLD_CASE_DEFAULT or FOLD_CASE_EXCLUDE_SPECIAL_I
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    • compare

      public int compare(String a, String b)
      Compare two strings depending on the options selected during construction.
      Specified by:
      compare in interface Comparator<String>
      Parameters:
      a - first source string.
      b - second source string.
      Returns:
      0 returned if a == b. If a < b, a negative value is returned. Otherwise if a > b, a positive value is returned.
      Throws:
      ClassCastException - thrown when either a or b is not a String object