From 9e4758bb64bfae9ceedbcd2ec7a4beac961b8e23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mdb <mdb@6335cc39-0255-0410-8fd6-9bcaacd3b74c>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:41:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Created a class that provides standard comparators. Presently
 it has a comparator that works on strings.

git-svn-id: https://samskivert.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@183 6335cc39-0255-0410-8fd6-9bcaacd3b74c
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 .../java/com/samskivert/util/Comparators.java | 31 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/util/Comparators.java

diff --git a/projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/util/Comparators.java b/projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/util/Comparators.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fd2cdb66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/util/Comparators.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+//
+// $Id: Comparators.java,v 1.1 2001/07/13 23:41:06 mdb Exp $
+
+package com.samskivert.util;
+
+import java.util.Comparator;
+
+/**
+ * A repository for standard comparators.
+ */
+public class Comparators
+{
+    public static final Comparator STRING = new Comparator()
+    {
+        public int compare (Object o1, Object o2)
+        {
+            if (o1 == o2) {
+                return 0;
+            }
+            if (o1 == null) {
+                return 1;
+            }
+            return ((String)o1).compareTo((String)o2);
+        }
+
+        public boolean equals (Object other)
+        {
+            return (other == this);
+        }
+    };
+}