Alphabetizing help

Hello yet again,
For my computer science class, we need to write a program that alphabetizes a list using a selection sort method.
Is there a way to quickly alphabetize the elements without creating a million if statements?
I have created code to put each word into an arraylist as a seperate string.
Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

CliffSniper wrote:
yes, I have seen that page
however, i'm asking for algorithm helpThat page describes the algorithm. I'm sure you can google for selection sort and find other examples and explanations. If you don't understand some part of it, ask a specific question.
right now, im thinking about assigning each letter of the alphabet a value and sorting the words based on their number value of the first char. Obviously, this is a very repetitive coding task and probably not the most efficient. Is there any specific algorithm for letter alpahbetization?If you're sorting words, you can use String's compareTo method to determine which word is "less than" the other.

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Welcome to the forum.
Please read this to learn hot to format your code (and other things relevant for this forum):
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/ann.jspa?annID=1535
923566 wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to sort a list of names alphabetically, case-insensitive by using the mergesort technique.
I wrote this codeDo you know the <tt>TreeSet</tt> class?
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/TreeSet.html
With that sorting Strings is a two liner:
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Collections-Data-Structure/TreeSetDemo.htm
bye
TPD

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