Sorting dataset, which contains strings, by one column

Hello,

I have a matrix of 1198x17. The first column is a column containing only strings. The first row contains 1 stringcell in cell 17, the rest of the first row are numbers. In cell A1 is a NaNvalue. All the other cells contain numbers. I need to sort this dataset by column #17 in such way that all the rows stay the same. How do I do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

sortrows(A, 17)

[Sam]

The dataset is an excelfile. So if I use the code for xlsread, this isn't possible.

[num,txt,raw] = xlsread('dataset');

num contains only the number, txt only the stringcells, and raw contains everything. If I than use 'sort' or 'sortrows' for 'raw' Matlab gives an error...