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Re: Re: Sorting nested list

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  • Subject: [mg57441] Re: [mg57408] Re: Sorting nested list
  • From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 05:39:04 -0400 (EDT)
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On May 27, 2005, at 4:56 AM, plizak wrote:

> I have a similar problem, I need to sort the same kind of list
>
> {{a,{2,4,1.,...}}, {c, {1,2,...}},{b,{3.2,-2,. ..}}}
>
> but I need to sort it based on the first element of each subarray,
> while keeping the second element the same.
>
> I did a pretty ugly solution (like 12 lines of code).  Is there a
> quicker more elegant way to sort this?
>

In[9]:=
Sort[lst, #2[[2,1]] >=
     #1[[2,1]] & ]
Out[9]=
{{c, {1, 2}},
   {a, {2, 4, 1.}},
   {b, {3.2, -2}}}

János


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