StringBuffer.CompareTo(StringBuffer) Method
Definition
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Compares two StringBuffer instances lexicographically.
[Android.Runtime.Register("compareTo", "(Ljava/lang/StringBuffer;)I", "", ApiSince=34)]
public int CompareTo(Java.Lang.StringBuffer another);
[<Android.Runtime.Register("compareTo", "(Ljava/lang/StringBuffer;)I", "", ApiSince=34)>]
member this.CompareTo : Java.Lang.StringBuffer -> int
Parameters
- another
- StringBuffer
the StringBuffer to be compared with
Returns
the value 0 if this StringBuffer contains the same
character sequence as that of the argument StringBuffer; a negative integer
if this StringBuffer is lexicographically less than the
StringBuffer argument; or a positive integer if this StringBuffer
is lexicographically greater than the StringBuffer argument.
- Attributes
Remarks
Compares two StringBuffer instances lexicographically. This method follows the same rules for lexicographical comparison as defined in the java.lang.CharSequence#compare(java.lang.CharSequence, java.lang.CharSequence) CharSequence.compare(this, another) method.
For finer-grained, locale-sensitive String comparison, refer to java.text.Collator.
Added in 11.
Java documentation for java.lang.StringBuffer.compareTo(java.lang.StringBuffer).
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