Sort

Usage

• Sort[list] sorts the elements of list into canonical order.
• Sort[list, p] sorts using the ordering function p.

Notes

• Example: Sort[

b, c, a

]

• The canonical ordering used by Mathematica is described in Section A.3.9.

• Sort[list, p] applies the function p to pairs of elements in list to determine whether they are in order. The default function p is OrderedQ[{#1, #2}]&.

• Example: Sort[

4, 1, 3

, Greater]

• Sort can be used on expressions with any head, not only List.

• See Section 1.8.9, Section 1.8.11 and Section 2.2.10.

• See also: Ordering, Order, OrderedQ, Orderless, Median, Quantile.

• New in Version 1.

Further Examples