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Re: Custom sort a list of pairs

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• Subject: [mg73681] Re: [mg73633] Custom sort a list of pairs
• From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
• Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:23:37 -0500 (EST)
• References: <200702230941.EAA17877@smc.vnet.net>

On Feb 23, 2007, at 4:41 AM, planetmarshalluk at hotmail.com wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've searched through existing posts to no avail, what I want to do is
> this:
> Sort a nested list of pairs, so that each pair is sorted by reverse
> canonical order on its first element, and in normal order on its
> second element.
>
> For example, I want some function
>
> sortPairs[items_]
>
> that when given the input
>
> {{ 1,a},{2,a},{3,a},{1,b},{2,b},{1,c}}
>
> produces the output
>
> {{3,a},{2,a},{2,b}{1,a},{1,b},{1,c}}
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>

Here is a newbie approach:

In[1]:=
lst = {{1, a}, {2, a},
     {3, a}, {1, b}, {2, b},
     {1, c}};

In[2]:=
s = Sort[lst,
    OrderedQ[{#2[[1]],
       #1[[1]]}] & ]
Out[2]=
{{3, a}, {2, a}, {2, b},
   {1, a}, {1, b}, {1, c}}

J=E1nos


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