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Re: sorting arrays in a cell array
Posted:
Nov 14, 2012 10:04 AM
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"Bruce Elliott" <bruce.elliott@jhuapl.nospam.edu> wrote in message
news:k7ucki$g0e$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com...
> "james bejon" wrote in message <k7u685$k6m$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>...
>> "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote in message
>> <k7u5ab$650$1@speranza.aioe.org>...
*snip*
> Thanks for the responses. I'm not as adept as I should be with cellfun or
> arrayfun, so I had not considered this kind of approach.
Another CELLFUN approach:
firstElementsOfEachCell = cellfun(@(x) x(1), myCellArray); % This will error
if any of the cells are empty
[~, indices] = sort(firstElementsOfEachCell);
and now use indices to reorder the cell array as per the previous
suggestions.
> As it happens, my array are not likely to be large, no more than ten or
> twenty cells containing numeric arrays, most of which will be 2-by-1, but
> some might be 2-by-n, where n<10. My main concern is therefore not so much
> performance as it is complexity of code and easy maintainability by other
> users who might have less expertise with Matlab programming.
> In other words, I'm thinking the for-loop might not be such a bad
> trade-off, if I can't do the one-line version.
For such a small problem, if you preallocate firstElementsOfEachCell, using
the FOR loop to extract the first elements of each cell would probably be
more efficient (CELLFUN being a much bigger hammer than you need) and easier
to read.
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Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com
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