public int compare()

in commands/src/main/java/org/jclouds/karaf/commands/table/internal/AlphanumericComparator.java [64:108]

37 lines of code
9 McCabe index (conditional complexity)


  public int compare(String left, String right)
  {
    int leftMarker = 0;
    int rightMarker = 0;
    int leftLength = left.length();
    int rightLength = right.length();

    while (leftMarker < leftLength && rightMarker < rightLength)
    {
      String leftChunk = getChunk(left, leftLength, leftMarker);
      leftMarker += leftChunk.length();

      String rightChunk = getChunk(right, rightLength, rightMarker);
      rightMarker += rightChunk.length();

      // If both chunks contain numeric characters, sort them numerically
      int result = 0;
      if (isDigit(leftChunk.charAt(0)) && isDigit(rightChunk.charAt(0)))
      {
        // Simple chunk comparison by length.
        int leftChunkLength = leftChunk.length();
        result = leftChunkLength - rightChunk.length();
        // If equal, the first different number counts
        if (result == 0)
        {
          for (int i = 0; i < leftChunkLength; i++)
          {
            result = leftChunk.charAt(i) - rightChunk.charAt(i);
            if (result != 0)
            {
              return result;
            }
          }
        }
      } else
      {
        result = leftChunk.compareTo(rightChunk);
      }

      if (result != 0)
        return result;
    }

    return leftLength - rightLength;
  }