How to sort a dot indexed array by rows based on one column

i made a dot indexed array called "pop" using repmat like the following

pop.X = [];

pop.V = [];

pop.F = [];

pop.pBestX = [];

pop.pBestF = [];

pop = repmat(pop, N, 1)

and wanted to sort it by rows based on the columne "pop.F"

what i mean is when pop.F(3) change position to pop.F(5) all other pop.X/pop.V in the same row will follow it

the pop array i have looks like this one

if there's a better way to make this kind of table and sort it, it would be greatly apreciated

Answer 1

[Jan]

[~, index] = sort([pop.F]);
pop2       = pop(index);

[chaker ben salem]

i was thinking it could be done within the same table but that works perfectly.

thank you,

[Seth Furman]

It's also worth mentioning that we can convert the struct array to a table using struct2table and sort the rows using sortrows.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/struct2table.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/double.sortrows.html

s = [];
s(1).a = [1 2 3 4];
s(1).b = 2;
s(2).a = [5 6 7 8];
s(2).b = 1;
t = struct2table(s)

t = 2×2 table
           a            b
    ________________    _

    1    2    3    4    2
    5    6    7    8    1

sortrows(t,"b")

ans = 2×2 table
           a            b
    ________________    _

    5    6    7    8    1
    1    2    3    4    2