Re: Custom sort a list of pairs
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- Subject: [mg73700] Re: Custom sort a list of pairs
- From: "Drago Ganic" <dganic at vodatel.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:31:31 -0500 (EST)
- References: <eroqjd$9jf$1@smc.vnet.net>
Bob,
just a small remark. In sorting we should always use OrderedQ instead of
Less. Canonical ordering (OrderedQ) is for Mathematica expressions, and
mathematical ordering (Less) is for real numbers.
Here is an example with complex numbers:
In[1]:=OrderedQ[{2I, I}]
Out[1]=False
In[2]:=2I < I
Less::nord: Invalid comparison with 2I attempted.
Out[2]=2I < I
Greetings from Croatia,
Drago Ganic
"Bob Hanlon" <hanlonr at cox.net> wrote in message
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> sortPairs[items_]:=Sort[Sort[data,#1[[2]]<#2[[2]]&],
> #1[[1]]>=#2[[1]]&];
>
> sortPairs[{{1,a},{2,a},{3,a},{1,b},{2,b},{1,c}}]
>
> {{3, a}, {2, a}, {2, b}, {1, a}, {1, b}, {1, c}}
>
>
> Bob Hanlon
>
> ---- planetmarshalluk at hotmail.com wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've searched through existing posts to no avail, what I want to do is
>> this:
>> Sort a nested list of pairs, so that each pair is sorted by reverse
>> canonical order on its first element, and in normal order on its
>> second element.
>>
>> For example, I want some function
>>
>> sortPairs[items_]
>>
>> that when given the input
>>
>> {{ 1,a},{2,a},{3,a},{1,b},{2,b},{1,c}}
>>
>> produces the output
>>
>> {{3,a},{2,a},{2,b}{1,a},{1,b},{1,c}}
>>
>> Any help much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
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