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SortBy for multiple key sorts

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• Subject: [mg124026] SortBy for multiple key sorts
• From: Chris Young <cy56 at comcast.net>
• Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 04:16:01 -0500 (EST)
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Finally figured out a reasonably simple way to sort by two keys, in
this case by the y-coordinates, and then within that sorting, by
x-coordinates. This is just a standard way to sort points: from bottom
to top in rows, and within each row from left to right. Why on earth
can't Sort take a list of ordering functions so that the same thing can
be done there?

In[1200]:= pts =
 {
  {0, 2}, {1, 2}, {2, 2},
  {4, 1}, {3, 1}, {6, 1}, {5, 1},
  {7, 0}, {-1, 0}
  }

In[1206]:= sortByYthenX = SortBy[pts, {Min[#[[2]]] &, Min[#[[1]]] &}]

Out[1206]= {{-1, 0}, {7, 0}, {3, 1}, {4, 1}, {5, 1}, {6, 1}, {0,
  2}, {1, 2}, {2, 2}}

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