sorting

I would like to sort a matrix included of alphabet and values for example a matrix with 10 columns or more the first column is included letter the second is included letter the third is included letter and the rest are values

I would like to know how to sort them based on for example first column then how to sort them based on second column and so on?

[Thomas]

can you show a small example..

[Niki]

for example

A = {['a' 'b' 'c'] ['d' 'm' 'f'] ['j' 'k' 'l'] [1 2 3] [3 4 7] [1 4 2]}

[Thomas]

how would you like your sorted output?

[Niki]

for example

based on the first column

but I want to be flexible for example if I want to sort them from the second column, I would like to be able to do that

Answer 1

[Thomas]

A = 
    'abc'    'dmf'    'jkl'    [1x3 double]    [1x3 double]    [1x3 double]
    'pqr'    'abc'    'jkl'    [1x3 double]    [1x3 double]    [1x3 double]

If you want to sort based on first column use

sortrows(A,1)    % sort the entire row based on column1
sortrows(A,2)    % sort the entire row based on column2   and so on..

[Niki]

is there any other way?

also how can i extract from cell ?

[Thomas]

A{1,1}

ans =

abc

Answer 2

[Michael]

Check the function called sortrows(matrix, column). It might be helpful for what you want to do.