RE: Sort List of Lists
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- Subject: [mg24824] RE: [mg24809] Sort List of Lists
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:49:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
testlist = {{9, 2}, {1, 6}, {2, 4}};
Sort[testlist, #1[[2]] > #2[[2]] & ]
{{1, 6}, {2, 4}, {9, 2}}
David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dana2 [mailto:dan_news at hotmail.com]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
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> Hello. Could someone please give me a clue on how to sort a list based on
> the Second Element in a List:
> I think one needs to use a "pure function" but I am too new with
> Mathematica (v4)
> (Trying to learn though) :>)
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> For Example, I would like to sort this list based on the second element in
> each sub-list in "Descending" order:
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> {{9, 2}, {1, 6}, {2, 4}}
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> Results would be:
> { {1,6},{2,4},{9,2} }
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> I think I will learn a lot about Lists, Sorting, and Pure Functions all in
> one shot if I could get a hint on how to do this.
> Thank you very much. Dana
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