Multilevel Sorting with IComparable and IComparer: Listing 2.

Calling List.Sort using the default ordering.

List<City> list = new List<City>();

list.Add(new City("san diego", 1.2, "west"));
list.Add(new City("phoenix", 1.7, "west"));
list.Add(new City("chicago", 1.2, "north"));
list.Add(new City("boston", 1.0, "east"));
list.Add(new City("nashville", 1.2, "south"));
list.Add(new City("houston", 1.7, "west"));

foreach (City c in list) {
  Console.WriteLine(c.ToString());
}

list.Sort(); 

foreach (City c in list) {
  Console.WriteLine(c.ToString());
}

About the Author

Dr. James McCaffrey directs the data science and research efforts at Quaetrix, a data analytics company located near Redmond, Washington. Before joining Quaetrix, James was a senior research engineer at Microsoft. James can be reached at [email protected].

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