sort a vector with its corresponding names/labels

Hi Just wonder if there is an easy and quick way to sort a vector with its corresponding values. for example, I have a vector 'values' and a cell array 'names'. These values are in pairs, so Amy links to 0, Emma links to 4 etc. values = [0, 4, 5, 1, 2] names = {"Amy","Emma","David","Joe","Kate"} If I sort by values, I want to output to be

values = [0, 1, 2, 4, 5] names = {"Amy","Joe","Kate","Emma","David"}

Is there an easy way to do this in matlab?

Answer 1

[dpb]

Use the optional second output from sort and arrange the names array using it...

[values,isort]=sort(values);
names=names(isort);

See

doc sort % for details...

[wei]

thanks for the fast and brilliant answer