Re: question about sequence sorting

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On Sun, 9 May 1999 04:57:05 +0100, colin ellis
<noonian at SUNG79.FREESERVE.CO.UK> wrote:

>Hi, Col22 (Colin Ellis) here with a little questionette.
>
>I have a sequence of x length, of sequences of 4 atoms.
>e.g.
>sequence snafu
>snafu = {{1,3,5,8},{1,2,3,4}, ..... ,{1,3,5,7}}
>
>My question is, What would be the most efficient/(any) way of sorting
>the sequences(of four) into ascending order (fourth atom in the sequence
>being the one to sort by).

I think this is the reason for the custom_sort() routine.
Take a look a csort.ex in the demo directory for an example.

Irv

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