Re: Sorting by date
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- Subject: [mg72664] Re: [mg72637] Sorting by date
- From: "Adriano Pascoletti" <pascolet at dimi.uniud.it>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:42:46 -0500 (EST)
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.
>
Clifford,
Sort using the canonical ordering (OrderedQ[....]) on the last element of each list:
In[1]:=
list = {{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}}};
In[2]:=
Sort[list, OrderedQ[{#1[[-1]], #2[[-1]]}] & ]
Out[2]=
{{3, 118.1, 10891, {2004, 11, 12}},
{3, 138.5, 12519, {2005, 1, 4}},
{3, 137.5, 13978, {2005, 2, 8}},
{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}}}
Adriano Pascoletti