Question

Believe it or not, when I search this, I come up with nada.

How can I sort a multidimensional vector of ints by one of the “columns”?

Many thanks in advance!

C++

res = mysql_perform_query(conn, "SELECT column1, column2, column3 FROM table1;");
std::vector< std::vector< int > > myVector;
while ((row = mysql_fetch_row(res)) !=NULL){
    int rankedID = atoi(row[0]);
    std::vector< int > tempRow;
    tempRow.push_back(atoi(row[0]));
    tempRow.push_back(atoi(row[1]));
    tempRow.push_back(atoi(row[2]));
    myVector.push_back(tempRow);
}

I’d like to sort myVector by myVector[i][1] descending.

Thanks again!

Answer 1

std::sort(myVector.begin(), myVector.end(), [](const std::vector< int >& a, const std::vector< int >& b){ 
    //If you want to sort in ascending order, then substitute > with <
    return a[1] > b[1]; 
}); 

Please notice that you will need a C++11 compiler to get this code compile. You should make the lambda function accept const references to avoid expensive copies, as suggested by Blastfurnace.

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>

int main(){
    std::vector< std::vector< int > > myVector({{3,4,3},{2,5,2},{1,6,1}});
    std::sort(myVector.begin(), myVector.end(), [](const std::vector< int >& a, const std::vector< int >& b){ return a[1] > b[1]; } );

    std::cout << "{";
    for(auto i : myVector){
        std::cout << "[";
        for(auto j : i)
            std::cout << j << ",";
        std::cout << "],";
    }
    std::cout << "}" << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

Output of the program:

{[1,6,1,],[2,5,2,],[3,4,3,],}