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Sorts a property list and turns the sorted list into a string.
     
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Properties;

/*

   Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.util.PropertyUtil

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 */



public class Main {

  /**
   * Sorts a property list and turns the sorted list into a string.
   *
   @param  list  property list to sort
   *
   @return a string version of the sorted list
   */
 public  static  String  sortPropertiesProperties list )
 {
   // stringify them with no indentation
   return sortProperties(list, null);
 }
  /**
   * Sorts property list and print out each key=value pair prepended with 
   * specific indentation.  If indent is null, do not prepend with
   * indentation. 
   *
   * The output string shows up in two styles, style 1 looks like
   * { key1=value1, key2=value2, key3=value3 }
   *
   * style 2 looks like
   *    key1=value1
   *    key2=value2
   *    key3=value3
   * where indent goes between the new line and the keys
   *
   * To get style 1, pass in a null indent
   * To get sytle 2, pass in non-null indent (whatever you want to go before
   * the key value)
   */
  public  static  String  sortPropertiesProperties list, String indent )
  {
    int       size = list == null : list.size();
    int       count = 0;
    String[]    array = new String[size];
    String      key;
    String      value;
    StringBuffer  buffer;

    // Calculate the number of properties in the property list and
    // build an array of all the property names.
    // We need to go thru the enumeration because Properties has a
    // recursive list of defaults.
    if (list != null)
    {
      for (Enumeration propertyNames = list.propertyNames();
         propertyNames.hasMoreElements())
      {
        if (count == size)
        {
          // need to expand the array
          size = size*2;
          String[] expandedArray = new String[size];
          System.arraycopy(array, 0, expandedArray, 0, count);
          array = expandedArray;
        }
        key = (StringpropertyNames.nextElement();
        arraycount++ = key;
      }

      // now sort the array
      java.util.Arrays.sort(array, 0, count);
    }

    // now stringify the array
    buffer = new StringBuffer();
    if (indent == null)
      buffer.append"{ " );

    for int ictr = 0; ictr < count; ictr++ )
    {
      if ictr > && indent == null)
        buffer.append", " );

      key = arrayictr ];

      if (indent != null)
        buffer.appendindent );

      buffer.appendkey ); buffer.append"=" );

      value = list.getPropertykey, "MISSING_VALUE" );
      buffer.appendvalue );

      if (indent != null)
        buffer.append"\n" );

    }
    if (indent == null)
      buffer.append" }" );

    return  buffer.toString();
  }

}

   
    
    
    
    
  
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