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How to sort these lines?

 
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Hello!

I really need a help on solving one problem.
I have many lines and I need the way to sort them by specified order. The lines are on picture.

I need them to be sorted in this order:
0 5 1 -- 0 is horizontal start and 5 is horizotal end, 1 is vertical position called height.
0 4 2 -- again 0 is horizontal start, 4 is horizontal end and 2 is vertical position(height)
1 4 3
2 3 4
0 5.5 5
6 7 5
6.0 6.2 2
6.2 6.4 3
6.4 6.6 4
6.6 6.8 3
6.8 7.0 2
9.5 15.5 3
10 12.5 2
12.5 15 2
10 15 1
16 17 5
16.0 16.1 2
16.2 16.3 3
16.4 16.5 4
16.6 16.7 3
16.8 16.9 2
0 18 6
Each line of 3 numbers represent one line on picture. The first number is horizontal start of line and second is horizontal end and third number is vertical position
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What are the sorting rules you wish to apply?
 
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Collection should be sorted from topmost line to bottommost as provided in my topic .

The top line(0,5,1) is the first in sorted collection, the second line(0,4,2) is second in sorted collection. The third line - 1 4 3 is the third in sorted coll.
These three numbers represent coordinates of line on picture:
0 is horizontal start of line
4 is horizontal end of line
1 is vertical position of line.
 
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To build the logic, you need to take a step back, forget all the existing data (lines) and formulate the sorting rules in simple english.
e.g.
If the x co-ordinate is the same for given two lines, the line with the higher y coordinate takes precedence over the other line
 
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Indeed. You are right.
I understood.

After some time I'll show you my java code for this.
 
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