Comment Added by : Azher

Comment Added at : 2010-01-29 12:23:39

Comment on Tutorial : compareTo( ) in Java By Mashoud
@Adam:
CompareTo returns the difference of the ASCII codes of the first non-matching character. So,

out.print(sOne.compareTo(sTwo)); would display
// (sTwo - sOne)
('a' - 'e') which is -4.
and
out.print(sTwo.compareTo(sOne)) would display
//(sOne - sTwo)
('e' - 'a') which is 4.

Hope this will help you.

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