Re: String comparison
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- Subject: [mg55083] Re: String comparison
- From: yasdfer at yahoo.com
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:21:37 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks for all your replies. Using OrderedQ definitely works! Thought I would like to share with you another solution that I got from Daniel Lichtbau at Wolfram. Simply: alist[[Ordering[alist[[All, 3]]]]] Timings on my machine is as follows: In[1]:= alist = Table[{ Random[], Random[Integer, {0, 1000}], \ FromCharacterCode[Table[Random[Integer, {65, 90}], {4}]]} , {1000000}]; In[2]:=Timing[Sort[alist, OrderedQ[{#1[[3]], #2[[3]]}] &]][[1]] Out[2]:= 78.015 Second In[3]:=Timing[alist[[Ordering[alist[[All, 3]]]]]][[1]] Out[3]:=3.391 Second At first it appears unbelievable how efficient the internal list processing implementation of Mathematica is! Cheers!