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bug #42523: sortrows/sort: only cell arrays of character strings may be sorted error

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sun 08 Jun 2014 01:41:31 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Libraries Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Matlab Compatibility
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Rick T Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  * Closed Release:  * dev
Operating System:  * Any Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  None
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Wed 19 Dec 2018 06:26:05 AM UTC, comment #5: 

I applied Guillaume's patch and added a BIST test for this bug report.  See https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/01f1e70c80b6.  This will be a part of the Octave 5.0 release in January.

Marking as fixed and closing report.

Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Fri 31 Mar 2017 02:21:55 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Attached is a small patch allowing the input to be a cell array.

(file #40222)

Guillaume <gyom>
Thu 15 Dec 2016 04:29:51 PM UTC, comment #3: 

This issue is still present in Octave 4.2.0.

The code line from comment #1 still throws an error.

Hartmut <hardy>
Sun 31 May 2015 05:42:26 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Confirmed still present on the default branch. This error comes from the octave_cell class, where the sort methods are only implemented for cell arrays consisting entirely of strings.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Group Member
Sun 08 Jun 2014 05:42:41 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The root cause looks to be with the built-in function, sort().


sort ({3,2,1})
error: sort: only cell arrays of character strings may be sorted


Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
Group Member
Sun 08 Jun 2014 01:41:31 PM UTC, original submission:  

Sortrows seems to be working differently in matlab then in octave.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24099275/what-type-of-array-should-i-use-to-combine-numerical-values-and-string-values-an/24099387?noredirect=1#comment37183633_24099387

Here's the code that should work but it seems to come back with an error

"error: sortrows: only cell arrays of character strings may be sorted
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/general/sortrows.m at line 62, column 7"


Here's an example

>> myCell = {1, 2, 'filename1';

             3, 4, 'filename2';
             5, 6, 'filename3'};

>> array = flipud(sortrows(myCell, 1)) %// "1" => col. "flipud" => descending

ans =
    [5]    [6]    'filename3'
    [3]    [4]    'filename2'
    [1]    [2]    'filename1'

>> array(1,1)

ans =
    [5]

>> array(3,3)

ans =
    'filename1'

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    2018-12-20 mtmiller Carbon-CopyRemoved 80942 -
    2018-12-19 rik5 StatusConfirmed Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2017-03-31 gyom Attached File- Added sr.diff, #40222
    2015-05-31 mtmiller Release3.8.1 dev
    2014-06-08 bpabbott CategoryOctave Function Libraries
        StatusNone Confirmed
        Operating SystemGNU/Linux Any
        Summarysortrows: only cell arrays of character strings may be sorted error sortrows/sort: only cell arrays of character strings may be sorted error

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