Java 6 equivalent of Integer.compare

Question

In Java 7 I can use Integer.compare, but when I try to use it in Java 6 it gives me the error:

cannot find symbol
symbol  : method compare(int,int)
location: class java.lang.Integer

How do I create a similar function in Java 6?

Answer 1

This is specified in the doc :

Compares two int values numerically. The value returned is identical to what would be returned by: Integer.valueOf(x).compareTo(Integer.valueOf(y))

So you can use :

Integer.valueOf(x).compareTo(Integer.valueOf(y))

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How do create a similar function in Java 6?

The source is open and you can find the implementation here.

public static int compare(int x, int y) {
      return (x < y) ? -1 : ((x == y) ? 0 : 1);
}