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Re: Sorting a list of pairs on the second elements

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  • Subject: [mg51383] Re: Sorting a list of pairs on the second elements
  • From: koopman at sfu.ca (Ray Koopman)
  • Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:47:59 -0400 (EDT)
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János <janos.lobb at yale.edu> wrote in message news:<cklmi7$f1o$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> [...]
> In general, if I have a list whose elements are m-member lists, like  
> {{a1,...,am},...,{z1,...,zm}}, then my question is what is the  
> best/fastest way to sort it on the k-th elements of the members where  
> 1<=k<=m and ak,...,zk are arbitrary objects - in my case Strings - and  
> use as little memory for it as possible.
> 

  Sort[list, OrderedQ[{#1[[k]],#2[[k]]}]& ]

works for me with your data.


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