Given a list of names in a cell array, sort the list by the last name. So if
list = {'Barney Google','Snuffy Smith','Dagwood Bumstead'}; then the output is
alpha_list = {'Dagwood Bumstead','Barney Google','Snuffy Smith'}Solution Stats
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Swapnali Gujar
on 11 Mar 2014
looks like there is problem with the 2nd test case result. The 'Cleve Molar' is shifted by 1 space in the ans
Weirong Chen
on 7 Apr 2015
This problem can be trickier if the input can allow different styles of name representation, e.g., 'FirstName LastName' and 'LastName, FirstName'.
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Jan
on 2 Feb 2012
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
David Verrelli
on 10 Mar 2018
Some alternative situations are presented in Problem 44538
( www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/44538 ) and Problem 44541 ( https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/44541 ).
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