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Re: SortBy

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  • Subject: [mg118215] Re: SortBy
  • From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
  • Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:37:38 -0400 (EDT)

KS = {{300, 48, 2}, {500, 23, 5}, {120, 55, 7}, {40, 32, 1}};

As shown on the Help page

SortBy[KS, Last]

{{40, 32, 1}, {300, 48, 2}, {500, 23, 5}, {120, 55, 7}}

or

SortBy[KS, #[[-1]] &]

{{40, 32, 1}, {300, 48, 2}, {500, 23, 5}, {120, 55, 7}}


Bob Hanlon

---- graser <graser at gmail.com> wrote: 

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Dear Mathematica group,

I have a simple question for you.

Let's say there is a list like

KS = {{300, 48, 2}, {500, 23, 5}, {120, 55, 7}, {40, 32, 1}};

I want to sort it by second element.

I can use

Sort[KS, #2[[2]] > #1[[2]] &]

It gives out like

{{500, 23, 5}, {40, 32, 1}, {300, 48, 2}, {120, 55, 7}}

But if I want to use SortBy, how to do that?

SortBy[KS, ??]

Thanks!




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