What is the answer?

[Voja034]

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;
public static void main(String args[])
{
    String [] ar= {"c", "d", "b", "a", "e"};
    InnerClass in=new InnerClass();
    Arrays.parallelSort(ar, in);
    for(String str : ar)
            System.out.println(str +"");
    System.out.println(Arrays.binarySearch(ar, "b"));
}
static class InnerClass implements Comparator<String>
    {
        public int compare(String s1, String s2)
        {
        return s2.compareTo(s1);
    }
    }
}

[ilenia]

what is the question?

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[Voja034]

I need answer for this question.

[JeremyLT]

What do you think that the answer is and why?

[Voja034]

I’m not sure because of binarySearch. In this case they searching for “b” and search starts from the middle where is “b” already.