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Re: sort question


From: geordie . mcbain
Subject: Re: sort question
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 17:05:09 +1000
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Easy: ask two return values of sort ():

        octave> [b, ib] = sort (a)

The second holds the desired indices.

On Wed, 5 May 2004 04:56 pm, Michael Underwood wrote:
> I looking for a neat way of determining the index that of each element of
> an array would have if sorted.
>
> eg.
> octave:1> a = rand(4,1)
> a =
>
>   0.73433
>   0.55564
>   0.49191
>   0.90766
>
> octave:2> b= sort(a)
> b =
>
>   0.49191
>   0.55564
>   0.73433
>   0.90766
>
> for instance, a(1)  is the 3rd element of b.
>
> I know this can be done with the find command, but the array I am dealing
> with are sufficiently large to make the find command too time consuming.
>
> Any ideas??
>
>
> Regards
>
>       Michael Underwood
>
>       Systems Analyst
> Generation Division
> Hydro Tasmania
>
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