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sort - Sort function

Function for sorting the members of a vector in either ascending or descending order.

Usage

sort(Real[] x, Bool ascending)

Arguments

x : Real[] (pass by reference)
The vector to be sorted.
ascending : Bool (pass by value)
Sort in ascending order?.
Default : TRUE

Return Type

Real[]

Details

The vector to be sorted can be of any numeric type. Ascending or descending is specified via the `ascending` argument

Example

nums = v(1,3,5,7,2,4,6,8)
sort(nums)
# this will result in 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
sort(nums, ascending = FALSE)
# this will result in 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

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