Re: Sort on vector component
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- Subject: [mg122014] Re: Sort on vector component
- From: "Chris Degnen" <degnen at cwgsy.net>
- Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 03:51:40 -0400 (EDT)
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To sort by the last position use SortBy[u, Last]
and for other positions, say the third, use Ordering:
u[[Ordering[u[[All, 3]]]]]
Dr. Wolfgang Hintze wrote:
>
> Given a list
>
> u = {{2, 12, 7, 21}, {2, 48, 47, 97}, {4, 42, 41, 87},
> {6, 8, 1, 15}, {6, 12, 9, 27}}
>
> How can I sort it with respect to a given index position i=(1, ..., 4)?
>
> For i=1 it is simply Sort, for the last one I could use
>
> In[75]:=
> Reverse /@ Sort[Reverse /@ u]
> Out[75]=
> {{6, 8, 1, 15}, {2, 12, 7, 21}, {6, 12, 9, 27},
> {4, 42, 41, 87}, {2, 48, 47, 97}}
>
> I don't want to go in the details of defining lexicographical order but
> just obtain a sorting as described above.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Wolfgang
>
>