RE: sortcom

[Allen.Windhorn]

Urs,

From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Urs Hackstein

> let x be a vector of complex numbers. I want to sort these
> complex numbers by its real parts, i.e. as -2+32*i, -1+3*i,
> 2+30*i, .... for example.
> sort(x) however sorts complex numbers by its absolute value
> and sort(real(x)) gives -2,-1,1

Assuming x is a column vector, let ax = [real(cx), imag(cx)];
Then sorted array sx = sortrows(ax) (sorts by first column, which
is the real part -- you can change this).
then the complex sorted array is scx = complex(sx(:,1), sx(:,2))

Regards,
Allen