Sort Columns by ascending order while maintaing cell values in place for every row

I have a code that will create a matrix (32xM) with each column being a random permutation of 32.

for k =1:100  %For however many trials (100 in this case)
    p(:,k)= randperm(32); %Create a permutation of 32 in each column
end

Is there a way to now order the random permutations in ascending order without losing the order of permuation? To clarify, can I order an entire column to sort based on its first cell value in ascending order? This should result in the random permutations being organized from least to greatest.

Answer 1

[Scott MacKenzie]

Hmmm, I think this works...

for k =1:100  %For however many trials (100 in this case)
    p(:,k)= randperm(32); %Create a permutation of 32 in each column
end
q = sortrows(p',1:32);
q = q'

Here's an example with smaller values to show the sorting result:

for k =1:8 
    p(:,k)= randperm(5); 
end
p
q = sortrows(p',1:5);
q = q'

p =

3 1 5 5 1 2 1 3

4 4 3 3 5 5 4 4

1 5 2 2 4 4 3 2

2 2 4 1 3 3 2 1

5 3 1 4 2 1 5 5

q =

1 1 1 2 3 3 5 5

4 4 5 5 4 4 3 3

3 5 4 4 1 2 2 2

2 2 3 3 2 1 1 4

5 3 2 1 5 5 4 1