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Given an ArrayList of String values, find and return the index of the first String value which is lexicographically before the previous element in the list. Return -1 if the list is already sorted in nondescending order, which is what most sorting algorithms will produce.


HINT: how do we compare String values again?

apcsaListFindOutOfOrder(["a", "b", "a"]) → 2
apcsaListFindOutOfOrder(["a", "b", "c"]) → -1
apcsaListFindOutOfOrder(["find", "me", "something", "good", "today"]) → 3

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public int apcsaListFindOutOfOrder(ArrayList<String> lst) { }

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