[PD] sorting a 2 dimension list solution

[Thomas Ouellet Fredericks]

Thanks for all the suggestions.
I can not compile on my computer right now, so I made a little abstraction : 
BIGGEST.
Its a multidimensional sort thingy. Requires ZEXY.

Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Barknecht" <fbar at footils.org>
To: <pd-list at iem.at>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] sorting a 2 dimension list


> Hallo,
> Thomas Ouellet Fredericks hat gesagt: // Thomas Ouellet Fredericks wrote:
>
>> Please help, I can not figure this out:
>>
>> How can I sort a multidimensional list by it's first element?
>> I know of a way using [coll] (cyclone) but from my experience, [coll] is
>> unstable.
>>
>> Example : how do I sort the following list [[2,3],[7,4],[5,3],[6,7]] ?
>> The result would be : [[2,3],[5,3],[6,7],[7,4]]
>
> I'd suggest the Georg Holzmann's wonderful PDContainer externals for
> this, they are in CVS and provide various very useful data types. In
> your case, you can directly use "h_list" like in attached patch.
>
> Ciao
> -- 
> Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__
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