Re: Sorting nested lists with strings
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- Subject: [mg116307] Re: Sorting nested lists with strings
- From: Adriano Pascoletti <adriano.pascoletti at uniud.it>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:24:12 -0500 (EST)
Use SortBy[list, f]
In[7]:= list = {{"Paul", 23}, {"Amanda", 55}, {"Carl", 32}}; SortBy[list,
First]
Out[7]= {{"Amanda", 55}, {"Carl", 32}, {"Paul", 23}}
Adriano Pascoletti
2011/2/9 Paperorbifold <kgodelNOSPAM at liberonospam.it>
> I've a nested list of this kind:
> list={{"Paul",23},{"Amanda",55},{"Carl",32},...}
> Suppose I want to perform an alphabetic sort on the first element. Which is
> the condition I've to write in Sort[list,...]?
> Actually Sort[list] automatically operates on the second element.
> Thanks.
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