179. Largest Number

Given a list of non negative integers, arrange them such that they form the largest number.

For example, given [3, 30, 34, 5, 9], the largest formed number is 9534330.

Note: The result may be very large, so you need to return a string instead of an integer.

Solution

public static String largestNumber2(int[] nums) {
		if (nums == null || nums.length == 0)
			return "";
		String[] strings = new String[nums.length];
		for (int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
			strings[i] = String.valueOf(nums[i]);
		}
		Comparator<String> comparator = new Comparator<String>() {
			@Override
			public int compare(String s1, String s2) {
				String string1 = s1 + s2;
				String string2 = s2 + s1;
				return string2.compareTo(string1);
			}
		};

		Arrays.sort(strings, comparator);
		if (strings[0].charAt(0) == '0') {
			return "0";//for {0, 0}
		}
		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
		for (int i = 0; i < strings.length; i++) {
			sb.append(strings[i]);
		}
		return sb.toString();
	}