Generalized Sorting

Sort any kind of data based on user-defined criteria.
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QUICKSORT allows the user to sort by any desired criteria. The user passes the data and a comparison function to the QUICKSORT and QUICKSORT returns an indexing vector sorted based on the comparison function.

The comparison function may be an inline function or a function handle. Function handles are an order of magnitude faster than inline functions. I use the TMP_HANDLE utility for creating temporary function handles in MATLAB 6.

QUICKSORT is implemented in m-code and uses a modified quicksort algorithm which sorts by "less than", "equal to" and "greater than". It is much slower than the builtin sort function, but also much more flexible.

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Nathan Thern (2024). Generalized Sorting (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/6756-generalized-sorting), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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1.0.0.0