How can I sort cell arrays along with vectors?

I am getting very confused by all the documentation on sorting in MATLAB, so can someone please answer this very specific question?

I have a number of numeric vectors along with two associated cell arrays, ie

How can I sort them all together with the order defined by one of the numeric vectors?

[Torsten]

I don't understand what you are asking for. How are the cell arrays associated with the numerical vectors ?

Can you give an example of what you want to achieve ?

[Stephen23]

"How can I sort them all together with the order defined by one of the numeric vectors?"

With difficulty: having lots of separate variables makes this task much harder.

If you stored the data in one table then it would be very easy.

[dormant]

I tried using a table before, but had problems because some of the values in the numeric vectors were undefined or NaNs. I can't remember the details, but I'll look into it again.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

[~, SortOrder] = sort(vtstring_datim_begs);   %or as appropriate

s_ends = vtstring_datim_ends(SortOrder);
s_durs = vtstring_durs(SortOrder);
s_ids = vtstring_ids(SortOrder);
s_max_MLs = vtstring_max_MLs(SortOrder);
%and so on

[dormant]

Many thanks.