| OffsetComparator |

    1   /*
    2    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2001, The University of Sheffield.
    3    *
    4    *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
    5    *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
    6    *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
    7    *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
    8    *
    9    *  Valentin Tablan 02/10/2001
    10   *
    11   *  $Id: OffsetComparator.java,v 1.2 2001/10/03 10:09:12 valyt Exp $
    12   *
    13   */
    14  package gate.util;
    15
    16  import java.util.Comparator;
    17  import gate.*;
    18
    19  /**
    20   * Compares annotations by start offset
    21   */
    22  public class OffsetComparator implements Comparator {
    23
    24    public int compare(Object o1, Object o2){
    25      Annotation a1 = (Annotation)o1;
    26      Annotation a2 = (Annotation)o2;
    27      return a1.getStartNode().getOffset().compareTo(
    28              a2.getStartNode().getOffset());
    29    }
    30  }

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