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<h1 class="title topictitle1">Group by Value</h1>
<div class="body refbody"><p class="shortdesc">Group a set of objects by value.
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<div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Motivation</h2>
<p class="p">Sometimes it is easier to understand the uses of instances of a class if the instances are
grouped into sets where each object in the set has the same printable value as the others.</p>
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<td valign="top" headers="d4149e43" class="stentry">objects</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d4149e46" class="stentry">An arbitrary set of objects to arrange in sets by value.</td>
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<td valign="top" headers="d4149e43" class="stentry">-field</td>
<td valign="top" headers="d4149e46" class="stentry">An optional dot notation to specify a field which is used to group the objects,
e.g. modCount to group HashMaps by their modifications.</td>
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<div class="section" id="ref_inspections_group_by_value__result"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Result</h2>
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