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'}
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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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Luna
on 24 Jan 2019
Size 42. How it calculates the size?
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A C
on 2 Sep 2018
What is wrong with test 2? It looks the same as my output.
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Mso
on 27 Aug 2018
You cheater
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Bhaskar R
on 10 Aug 2018
Task is done but Test suite is not dynamic
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yao gang
on 20 Oct 2016
My crazy answer....
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Serhii Tetora
on 21 Jan 2019
How?
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MDK
on 20 Dec 2014
Is there a bug in the Test Suite ? I made a code that resulted in the exact ideal answer but the Test has failed!?
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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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