Sorting content of table columns

Hello Community, please I've a table consisting of numbers, I want to sort column 2 in any order(ascending or decending). I've attached a picture of my table to this question.

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Please do not ask the same question multiple time. It's a waste of our effort.
My mistake, sorry, thought the first post didn't get through. My apologies.

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I am giving an example to explain.
clc
clear
load patients
T = table(Gender,Age,Height,Weight,Smoker,Systolic,Diastolic);
If you wish to sort Age out of table, then use
sort(T.Age,'ascend');
Attach you .mat file to get more clarification.

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the problem is my table don't have table titles, so I can do what you have suggested
Attach the mat file.
I want to sort the columns in the cell graphs{1,1}.Edges
with the cell named as edges, its easy to sort the columns i want by writing this sort(edges{1,1}). But the other cell 'graphs' is a bit different
"I want to sort column 2 in any order". Here you refer.
AA=str2double(graphs{1,1}.Edges.EndNodes);
sort(AA(:,2));
Thanks, i tried it but it doesn't completely solve my problem. I want AA to be a cell so i can copy it back to graphs{1,1}.Edges and plot my graph. I've have attached a picture to it, You can see that variable AA is now a double and I can't copy it back to graphs{1,1}.Edges
Thanks, I've finally been able to do it using your codes.
AA = sort(graphs{1,1}.Edges.EndNode)
graphs{1,1}.Edges.EndNode = AA.
it works fine, Thank You very much.
Guillaume
Guillaume on 8 Oct 2018
Edited: Guillaume on 8 Oct 2018
it works fine
It may appear that it does and it may give you the correct result under some circumstances. In the majority of cases, it will give a completely wrong result because sort is the wrong function to use as it will sort each column separately.
I gave you the correct solution in your other identical question, b.t.w. You should read the comments to the question there as well. Until you learn to work properly with graphs, you will run into this sort of problems.

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KSSV
KSSV on 8 Oct 2018
Read about sort

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I've read about sort, sortrow, sortcols but I'm still having problems with what i want to do.

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