Getting 10 largest values from a Vector

[kmcculler]

Currently I am loading 2 Vectors from an XML file read. The first Vector "values" has scores(stored as a BigDecimal), the second "labels" contains an appropriate label for that score (String).
Im loading them fine, but my next step is to find the 10 largest scores and print out only them and their label.
Does anyone know how I can find the 10 largest values and seperate them but keep them associated with the correct label?? Thanks in Advance
Kris McCuller
Programmer Portiva Corp.
kmcculler@portiva.com

 

[meadandale]

Sort the Vector and take the top 10!!!

You could dump it to an array and sort the array or dump the vector elements to a sorted list (e.g. TreeSet).

Are all of the labels/scores unique? You could put them in a hashmap and then after sorting the scores, reacquaint the scores and labels.

There are many, many ways to do what you want.