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Re: Sorting by date

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  • Subject: [mg72660] Re: Sorting by date
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:26:41 -0500 (EST)

On 1/13/07 at 4:17 AM, camartin at snet.net (Clifford Martin) wrote:

>I have a list of lists that looks like so:

>{{3, 137.5, 13978, {2005, 2, 8}}, {3, 138.5, 12519, {2005, 1, 4}},
>{3, 171.9, 15835, {2005, 4, 12}}, {3, 142.8, 17137, {2005, 11, 
>19}}, {3, 161.1, 18881, {2006, 1, 18}}, {3, 108.7, 20055, 
>{2006, 2, 28}},
>{3, 157, 21498, {2006, 9, 14}}, {3, 118.1, 10891, {2004, 11, 12}}}

>The last element per vector is a date. I'd like to sort the list so
>that the vectors are arranged in ascending order of date, i.e. the
>vector containing {2004,11,12}  should be first and and the vector
>containing {2006,9,14}  should be last. Any help would be
>appreciated.

Simply take advantage of the second argument to sort by 
supplying it a pure function that makes it simple to order 
dates. That is

Sort[data, OrderedQ@{FromDate@Flatten@{
       Last@#1, 0, 0, 0}, FromDate@Flatten@{Last@#2, 0, 0, 0}} &]

will do the trick

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