Re: sort list
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- Subject: [mg47239] Re: sort list
- From: "Peter Pein" <no at spam.no>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 02:59:43 -0500 (EST)
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"Guibout" <guibout at ifrance.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:c4be1n$702$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Hi, > I have a list of the form > {{something1,x1},{something2,x2},{something3,x3}} where x1,x2, x3 are > numbers. I want to sort this list with respect to xi. In other word if > x2<x3<x1 I want Mathematica to produce: > {{something2,x2},{something3,x3},{something1,x1}} > Thanks for your help > Vincent In[1]:= First /@ Sort[{{works, 3}, {yes, 1}, {it, 2}}, #1[[-1]] < #2[[-1]] &] Out[1]= {yes, it, works} -- Peter Pein, Berlin StringReplace["petsie at arcand.de", Rule@@(ToLowerCase@ToString@Head@#&)/@{William&&S,2b||!2b}]