How to sort an array of ints using a custom comparator?

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If you can’t change the type of your input array the following will work:

final int[] data = new int[] { 5, 4, 2, 1, 3 };
final Integer[] sorted = ArrayUtils.toObject(data);
Arrays.sort(sorted, new Comparator<Integer>() {
    public int compare(Integer o1, Integer o2) {
        // Intentional: Reverse order for this demo
        return o2.compareTo(o1);
    }
});
System.arraycopy(ArrayUtils.toPrimitive(sorted), 0, data, 0, sorted.length);

This uses ArrayUtils from the commons-lang project to easily convert between int[] and Integer[], creates a copy of the array, does the sort, and then copies the sorted data over the original.

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