Re: SortBy
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- Subject: [mg118189] Re: SortBy
- From: Michael Stern <nycstern at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:32:34 -0400 (EDT)
SortBy[KS, #[[2]] &]
Cheers,
Michael Stern
Merrin Capital Management
On 4/15/2011 3:56 AM, graser wrote:
> Dear Mathematica group,
>
> I have a simple question for you.
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> Let's say there is a list like
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> KS = {{300, 48, 2}, {500, 23, 5}, {120, 55, 7}, {40, 32, 1}};
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> I want to sort it by second element.
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> I can use
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> Sort[KS, #2[[2]]> #1[[2]]&]
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> It gives out like
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> {{500, 23, 5}, {40, 32, 1}, {300, 48, 2}, {120, 55, 7}}
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> But if I want to use SortBy, how to do that?
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> SortBy[KS, ??]
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> Thanks!
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>