psort()

Here’s how to use psort() function.

A.p sort()

Description:

Get the original positions of the sorted members of a sequence.

Syntax:

A.psort (x)

A.psort(xi:di,...)

Note:

The function sorts members of sequence A according to the value of expression x and returns their sequence numbers before they are sorted.

Parameter:

A

A sequence

x

The sorting expression

xi

If there are multiple sorting expressions, they can be written as xi:di,.., a compound expression consisting of multiple expressions

di

Sorting order: >0 represents ascending order, which is the default, and <0 descending order

Option: 

@m

Perform parallel algorithm to enhance performance of handling data-intensive or computation-intensive tasks

@z

Sort a sequence in descending order and return the position of a member in the original sequence

@0

Put records with null values at the end

Return value:

Sequence

Example:

 

A

 

1

[a,c,e,g,f,d,b]

 

2

=A1.psort(~)

[1,7,2,6,3,5,4].

3

=demo.query("select * from EMPLOYEE")

 

4

=A3.psort(DEPT:1,BIRTHDAY:-1)

A3 is sorted in ascending order by DEPT first, and then in descending order by BIRTHDAY.

5

=A3.psort@m(DEPT,BIRTHDAY)

Use @m option to increase performance of big data handling.

6

=A1.psort@z(~)

[4,5,3,6,2,7,1].

7

[a,c,e,,f,d,b]

 

8

=A7.psort(~)

[4,1,7,2,6,3,5].

9

=A7.psort@0(~)

[1,7,2,6,3,5,4].

Related function:

A.pos()

A.sort()

A.pos(x)

A.swap(p,q)

A.rvs()