Sorting a cell array in matlab

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I have an array of 81x1 cell of str. which looks like this, '1.png' '2.png' '100.png' '43.png' '20.png' '32.png' '98.png' and so on. I am trying to sort it using the sort function. sort(A) but it doesnt sort it. what should I do?

what is the result of your sort() function?

Gholamali Irani
– Gholamali Irani

2017-12-03 08:13:33 +00:00
Commented Dec 3, 2017 at 8:13 — Gholamali Irani
– Gholamali Irani, Commented Dec 3, 2017 at 8:13
have you looked at this link?

JLev
– JLev

2017-12-03 08:20:11 +00:00
Commented Dec 3, 2017 at 8:20 — JLev
– JLev, Commented Dec 3, 2017 at 8:20

Sardar Usama · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-03 08:36:23Z

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Remove .png using regexprep or strrep, convert the remaining string to double and then use sort to get the sorted indices. Use these sorted indices to sort the cell A.

[~, ind] = sort(str2double(regexprep(A,'.png','')));
A = A(ind);

answered Dec 3, 2017 at 8:36

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