Re: Sorting a list of names
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg112275] Re: Sorting a list of names
- From: "Ingolf Dahl" <ingolf.dahl at telia.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 06:07:30 -0400 (EDT)
Try
Sort[Transpose[{StringSplit[names][[All, 2]], names}]][[All, 2]]
Best regards
Ingolf Dahl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Joseph [mailto:josco.jon at gmail.com]
> Sent: den 7 september 2010 08:03
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg112269] Sorting a list of names
>
> All: I have a list of names read in as strings with first names first.
> Can anyone suggest a mechanism to sort the list by the last names with
> the final output being the entire name?
>
> Starting array:
>
> names = {"Cole Dockter", "Mackenzie Christensen", "Rebecca Eastham",
> "David Gartzke", \
> "Matthew Lundberg", "Tyler Hullett", "Cecilia Ford", "Grant Patterson"}
>
> Ending array:
>
> names_sorted = {"Mackenzie Christensen", "Cole Dockter", "Rebecca
> Eastham", "Cecilia Ford", "David Gartzke", "Tyler Hullett", "Matthew
> Lundberg", "Grant Patterson"}
>
> As a note Sort[StringSplit[names][[All, 2]]] does exactly what I want
> except it drops the first name on output.=