Create a SortedMap in Java with a custom Comparator

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You can use a custom comparator like this:

    Comparator<String> secondCharComparator = new Comparator<String>() {
        @Override public int compare(String s1, String s2) {
            return s1.substring(1, 2).compareTo(s2.substring(1, 2));
        }           
    };

Sample:

    SortedMap<String,String> map =
        new TreeMap<String,String>(secondCharComparator);
    map.put("Za", "FOO");
    map.put("Ab", "BAR");
    map.put("00", "ZERO");
    System.out.println(map); // prints "{00=ZERO, Za=FOO, Ab=BAR}"

Note that this simply assumes that the String has a character at index 1. It throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException if it doesn’t.

Alternatively, you can also use this comparison:

return s1.charAt(1) - s2.charAt(1);

This subtraction “trick” is broken in general, but it works fine here because the subtraction of two char will not overflow an int.

The substring andcompareTo solution above is more readable, though.

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