Re: sort question

[Geraint Paul Bevan]

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Michael Underwood wrote:
| I probably didn't explain properly.
| ib gives the permutation vector (e.g. in my example, it would tell me
that the 1st element of b is the 3rd element of a). I'm basically
looking for the inverse; for example, what element of b does a(1) equal.
| This could be done using
|       b = sort(a);
|       for k = 1 to length(a),
|               ic(k) = find(b==a(k));
|       endfor
| but I am doing this on really large 2-D arrays
|

Is this what you are after?

octave:1> a = rand(4,1);
octave:2> [b,ib] = sort(a)
b =

~  0.017655
~  0.081125
~  0.197712
~  0.790007

ib =

~  2
~  4
~  1
~  3

octave:3> c(ib) = [1:4]
c =

~  3  1  4  2



- --
Geraint Bevan
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geraint.bevan

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