Sorting (Mutil-dimensional arrays)

[bluebird]

In the STL, is there a default function that sorts a rectangular 2D array based on a specified column? For instance, if I have:

Array-Index studentID grades
0 5 90
1 6 8

How do I get a list of the students based on grades ranking (i.e. Sort the grades column)? This should be a fairly common task. It would be clumsy to manually program a new sorting algorithm just for something so simple.

[Cho]

I will sort it as follows:

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#include <stdlib.h>

int cmp(const void *a, const void *b)
{
   int *x=(int *)a, *y=(int *)b;
   return x[2]-y[2];
}

int main()
{
   int array[100][3], n;
   ...
   qsort(array, n, sizeof(int)*3, cmp);
   ...
   return 0;
}

[Martin Macko]

To sort by the 3rd column you can like this:

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bool cmp3(const vector<int> &a, const vector<int> &b) {return a[3]<b[3];}

vector< vector<int> > V;
sort(V.begin(), V.end(), cmp3);