Re: On sorting

Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> Sat, 25 May 2013 11:49:32 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.velocity.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 05/25/2013 11:39 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm really getting mad! :-) Of course I know that the only reason for this is my lack of skills!!! Catching up...
> 
> I do need some kind of security. Please, could you confirm this statement...
> 
> Class SortTool can be used to sort any list of objects, but NOT a list of strings.

Where did you get this from? It is not true, it can sort any list of
comparable things:

#set ($strings = ['a', 'x', 'b', 'r', 'f'])
$sorttool.sort($strings) -> [a, b, f, r, x]

> http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/javadoc/org/apache/velocity/tools/generic/SortTool.html
> 
> Thanks!