Code For Sorting A Vector/Array In Descending

Order
Allen Banez, Karl Cabidog, and Ruther Casison
University of Santo Tomas, Espaa Blvd., Manila 1015 Philippines
vmada@ust.edu.ph, jasilo@ust.edu.ph, ruthergene@gmail.com
Abstractcreating a function that ask for an input
vector/array, the code shall sort the vector/array in descending
order, the output shall show the sorted vector/array.
Keywordssorting;descending;array; vector;

I.

INTRODUCTION

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II. CODE DESCRIPTION
A. Code
Function b = downsort(a)
x2= 1:length(a);
for k=1:length(a);
[C, I]=min(a);
a(I)=[];
x2(k)=C;
end
x2new = fliplr(x2);
b =x2new;
disp(b);
end
B. Code theory
The function will ask the user to input a vector/array in
variable a, the code then shall calculate the maximum length
of the vector for looping purposes, under a for loop from 1 to
the length of the vector the code shall reiterate each element

of the array/vector from lowest to highest and create a new

array x2new in which the elements of array a are in ascending
order. After iteration process the code shall flip the array
x2new using flip function making ascending order into
descending order. Lastly the code then shall put the
descending ordered array into the output variable b and
display the output variable b.
III. RESULTS
Calling downsort function downsort (a), inputting a test
vector of a = [2 5 3 1 9 7 4], the function resulted to an output
of b = [9
7
5
4
3
2
1]. Resulting to a sorted
array in descending order.

IV. CONCLUSION
A user defined function of downsort(a) asking the user to
input a vector/array in which the code sorted in descending
order are coded in the function. The output of the function
then displayed the inputted vector in descending order. With
this result the task of creating a function that will sort in
descending order a vector of any length is attained, concluding
the task to be successful.

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