How to sort the elements of an ArrayList array according to their ascii values?

Question

I read the file using Scanner, and then used HashMap and ArrayList to sort the words according to the number of occurrences of the words (ascending and descending), and everything works fine. But I want the result to be sorted so that it first displays the numbers, and then in upper and lower case.

Below is my code for this:

`Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File("file"));
    Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
    int count=0;
    String whole="";
    while (scanner.hasNext())
        {
        count++;
        String word = scanner.next();
        whole=whole + " " + word;
        if (map.containsKey(word))
            {
            map.put(word, map.get(word)+1);
            }
        else
            {
            map.put(word, 1);
            }
        }

    List<Map.Entry<String, Integer>> entries = new ArrayList<Entry<String,Integer>>( map.entrySet());

    Collections.sort(entries, new Comparator<Map.Entry<String, Integer>>() {

        @Override
        public int compare(Map.Entry<String, Integer> a, Map.Entry<String, Integer> b) {
            return a.getValue().compareTo(b.getValue());
        }
    });

    System.out.println("Count: " +count);
    System.out.print("Output 1(Ascending): ");
    for(int j = 0; j < map.size(); j++){
        System.out.println(entries.get(j).getKey()+" "+entries.get(j).getValue());
    }

    System.out.print("Output 2(Descending): ");
    for(int i = 0; i < map.size(); i++){
        System.out.println(entries.get(entries.size() - i - 1).getKey()+" "+entries.get(entries.size() - i - 1).getValue());
    }`

My input:

I have 10 dogs and all dogs are of different sizes.

And my conclusion:

: 12
1 ( ): 1 1
1
1
1
1
1 | 1
1
10 1
2
2 ( ): dogs 2
10 1
1
I 1
1 | 1
1
1
1
1
1

:

2 \, ,
10 1\ 1\
1 \,

Answer 1

, .

String input = "I have 10 dogs and all the dogs are of different size";
String [] inputSplit = input.split(" ");

Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();

for (int i=0; i < inputSplit.length; i++) {
    String word = inputSplit[i];
    if (map.containsKey(word)) {
        map.put(word,  map.get(word) + 1);
    }
    else {
        map.put(word, 1);
    }
}

List<Map.Entry<String, Integer>> entries = new ArrayList<>(map.entrySet());
Collections.sort(entries, new Comparator<Map.Entry<String, Integer>>() {
    @Override
    public int compare(Map.Entry<String, Integer> a, Map.Entry<String, Integer> b) {
        int compareWordCount = a.getValue().compareTo(b.getValue());

        if (compareWordCount == 0) {
            return a.getKey().compareTo(b.getKey());
        }
        return compareWordCount;
    }
});

for (int j=0; j < entries.size(); j++) {
    System.out.println(entries.get(j).getKey()+" "+entries.get(j).getValue());
}

10 1
I 1
all 1
and 1
are 1
different 1
have 1
of 1
size 1
the 1
dogs 2

String input = "I have 10 dogs and all the dogs are of different size";

String [] inputSplit = input.split(" ");

Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();

for(int i = 0; i < inputSplit.length; i++){
    String word = inputSplit[i];
    if(map.containsKey(word)){
        map.put(word,  map.get(word) + 1);
    }
    else{
        map.put(word, 1);
    }
}

List<Entry<String, Integer>> entries = new ArrayList<>(map.entrySet());

Comparator <Entry<String, Integer>> ascComparator = new Comparator<Entry<String, Integer>>(){

    @Override
    public int compare(Entry<String, Integer> a, Entry<String, Integer> b) {

        int compareWordCount = a.getValue().compareTo(b.getValue());

        if(compareWordCount == 0){
            return a.getKey().compareTo(b.getKey());
        }
        return compareWordCount;
    }

};

Comparator <Entry<String, Integer>> descComparator = new Comparator<Entry<String, Integer>>(){

    @Override
    public int compare(Entry<String, Integer> a, Entry<String, Integer> b) {

        int compareWordCount = a.getValue().compareTo(b.getValue());

        if(compareWordCount == 0){
            return b.getKey().compareTo(a.getKey());
        }
        return compareWordCount;
    }

};

System.out.println("Ascending Sort");
Collections.sort(entries, ascComparator);       
for(int j = 0; j < entries.size(); j++){
    System.out.println(entries.get(j).getKey()+" "+entries.get(j).getValue());
}

System.out.println("\nDescending Sort");
Collections.sort(entries, descComparator);

for(int j = 0; j < entries.size(); j++){
    System.out.println(entries.get(j).getKey()+" "+entries.get(j).getValue());
}

Ascending Sort
10 1
I 1
all 1
and 1
are 1
different 1
have 1
of 1
size 1
the 1
dogs 2

Descending Sort
the 1
size 1
of 1
have 1
different 1
are 1
and 1
all 1
I 1
10 1
dogs 2

Answer 2

, ascii,

        public int compare(Map.Entry<String, Integer> a, Map.Entry<String, Integer> b) {
            int i = a.getValue().compareTo(b.getValue());
            if(i==0) {
                i = b.getKey().compareTo(a.getKey());
            }
            return i;
        }

, .

Answer 3

Just update the part of the compare method :

    Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File("file"));
    Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
    int count=0;
    String whole="";
    while (scanner.hasNext())
        {
        count++;
        String word = scanner.next();
        whole=whole + " " + word;
        if (map.containsKey(word))
            {
            map.put(word, map.get(word)+1);
            }
        else
            {
            map.put(word, 1);
            }
        }

    List<Map.Entry<String, Integer>> entries = new ArrayList<Entry<String,Integer>>( map.entrySet());

    Collections.sort(entries, new Comparator<Map.Entry<String, Integer>>() {

        @Override
        public int compare(Map.Entry<String, Integer> a, Map.Entry<String, Integer> b) {
            int compareResult = a.getValue().compareTo(b.getValue());
            if (compareResult != 0) {
                return compareResult;
            } else {
                //Here, when the occurance numbers are equal, then compare
                //with the key values where the texts are stored
                return a.getKey().compareTo(b.getKey());
            }
        }
    });

    System.out.println("Count: " +count);
    System.out.print("Output 1(Ascending): ");
    for(int j = 0; j < map.size(); j++){
        System.out.println(entries.get(j).getKey()+" "+entries.get(j).getValue());
    }

    System.out.print("Output 2(Descending): ");
    for(int i = 0; i < map.size(); i++){
        System.out.println(entries.get(entries.size() - i - 1).getKey()+" "+entries.get(entries.size() - i - 1).getValue());
    }