Re: Sorting by date
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- Subject: [mg72661] Re: [mg72637] Sorting by date
- From: Yasvir Tesiram <tesiramy at omrf.ouhsc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:30:41 -0500 (EST)
Hi, Try, x[[#]] & /@ (Ordering[Last /@ x]) where x is your list. Cheers Yas On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Clifford Martin wrote: > Hi All, > > 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. > > Thanks > > Cliff > >