Need sort help

Ruby
#1

Hi All,

a=[[“raja”,1],[“Arun”,5],[“babu”,3]]

I want to sort 1,3,5

So i expect output in this order --> raja, babu, arun

Any methods available for this ?

Regards,
P.Raveendran
RF,Chennai

#2

On Tuesday 12 August 2008, jazzez ravi wrote:

Regards,
P.Raveendran
RF,Chennai
http://raveendran.wordpress.com

a.sort_by{|i| i[1]}

Array#sort_by calls the block for each element of the array, and uses
the
return value as a key to use in sorting.

I hope this helps

Stefano

#3

jazzez ravi [email protected] writes:

Hi All,

a=[[“raja”,1],[“Arun”,5],[“babu”,3]]

I want to sort 1,3,5

So i expect output in this order --> raja, babu, arun

Any methods available for this ?

[[“raja”,1],[“Arun”,5],[“babu”,3]].sort {|a,b| a[1] <=> b[1] };

Cheers,
J.

#4

Hi Stefano,

a.sort_by{|i| i[1]}

Array#sort_by calls the block for each element of the array, and uses
the
return value as a key to use in sorting.

I hope this helps

Stefano

Thanks for quick and best reply…

Regards,
P.Raveendran
RF,Chennai