Computer Applications
Two strings, city1
and city2
, are compared using city1.compareTo(city2)
, and the result is less than zero. What does this indicate?
Answer
city1
appears before city2
in an alphabetical list.
Reason — The method compareTo(String s)
in Java compares two strings lexicographically. It returns:
- A negative value if the calling string (
city1
) comes before the argument string (city2
) in alphabetical order. - 0 if the two strings are equal.
- A positive value if the calling string (
city1
) comes after the argument string (city2
) in alphabetical order.
If the result is less than zero, it indicates that city1
appears before city2
lexicographically (alphabetically).
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