RosettaCodeData/Task/Order-by-pair-comparisons/Java/order-by-pair-comparisons-1...

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Java

import java.util.*;
public class SortComp1 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<String> items = Arrays.asList("violet", "red", "green", "indigo", "blue", "yellow", "orange");
List<String> sortedItems = new ArrayList<>();
Comparator<String> interactiveCompare = new Comparator<String>() {
int count = 0;
Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
public int compare(String s1, String s2) {
System.out.printf("(%d) Is %s <, =, or > %s. Answer -1, 0, or 1: ", ++count, s1, s2);
return s.nextInt();
}
};
for (String item : items) {
System.out.printf("Inserting '%s' into %s\n", item, sortedItems);
int spotToInsert = Collections.binarySearch(sortedItems, item, interactiveCompare);
// when item does not equal an element in sortedItems,
// it returns bitwise complement of insertion point
if (spotToInsert < 0) spotToInsert = ~spotToInsert;
sortedItems.add(spotToInsert, item);
}
System.out.println(sortedItems);
}
}