Re: Sorting of words

[Gabriel Panzenboeck]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, SZABO Sandor wrote:

> Dear Octave users,
> 
> I use Octave 2.0.16 and I have the following problem. I want to sort
> alphabetically the words: "apple", "dog", "long". I tried with SORT
> function without success. How can I solve this problem?

a quick and dirty solution:

a=['dog';'long';'apple']
[s,i]=sort(toascii(a(:,1)))
b=a(i,:)

g.


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