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org/apache/lucene/index/Term.java

compareTo(Term)

class Term {
  /** Compares two terms, returning a negative integer if this
    term belongs before the argument, zero if this term is equal to the
    argument, and a positive integer if this term belongs after the argument.

    The ordering of terms is first by field, then by text.*/
  public final int compareTo(Term other) {
    if (field == other.field)			  // fields are interned
      return text.compareTo(other.text);
    else
      return field.compareTo(other.field);
  }

}