Java bootcamp · Lab 47

Sort by length

mediumLambdas12 minLesson: Lambdas

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Read a line of words; print sorted by length (stable), space-separated.

Examples

Example 1
Input
cat elephant a dog
Output
a cat dog elephant
Hint
  1. Arrays.sort(words, Comparator.comparingInt(String::length))
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import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
    String[] words = in.nextLine().trim().split("\\s+");
    Arrays.sort(words, Comparator.comparingInt(String::length));
    System.out.println(String.join(" ", words));
  }
}
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