sorting an string cell

i have cell whoes 1st column has names of countries and 2nd have population

i want to arrage it alphabetical oder in such a way so that population of counteries donot misplaced

for example

burundi 11890781 donot change means row wise data donot alter

[Stephen23]

Note that SORT uses the character code order, which is not the same as alphabetic order.

In your example, "Réunion" would sort after "Rwanda", because "é" has a higher character code than "w":

S = ["Angola","Réunion","Rwanda","Zambia"];
T = sort(S) % wrong order!

T = 1×4 string array
    "Angola"    "Rwanda"    "Réunion"    "Zambia"

But in English and also in standard French, the letter "é" comes before "w" because the diacritic is considered as a modifier of the "e" character. Note however that in some other languages letters with diacritics are considered to be separate letters, and that the same characters can be positioned in different locations by different countries and languages. Some languages even count digraphs (two graphemes) as one letter, with "its" own position in the alphabet.

In short, sorting "alphabetically" is nowhere near as trivial as people think:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/212614/where-does-ö-fall-in-alphabetical-ordering

[Muhammad]

it should sort in English alphatical oder

[Stephen23]

@Muhammad SULAMAN: then you will need to handle the diacritics yourself (e.g. remove them before sorting and then use the sort index to sort the original data).

[Stephen23]

Addendum: an easy way to sort Réunion into the expected position is to use ARBSORT:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/132263-custom-list-arbitrary-sequence-sort

For example:

S = ["Réunion","Zambia","Rwanda","Angola"];
sort(S) % for comparison

ans = 1×4 string array
    "Angola"    "Rwanda"    "Réunion"    "Zambia"

arbsort(S)

ans = 1×4 string array
    "Angola"    "Réunion"    "Rwanda"    "Zambia"

Answer 1

[Rik]

You can use sortrows directly, or use code like this:

[~,order]=sort(population(:,1));
population=population(order);

[Muhammad]

but it doesnot have population in 2 column

[Rik]

Small typo:

[~,order]=sort(population(:,1));
population=population(order,:);

[Muhammad]

output of your code

it doesnot have populatioin

[Stephen23]

"it doesnot have populatioin"

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/845225-sorting-an-string-cell#comment_1557190