Looking to Search and Sort String Twice, though am having issues

[jonathanupr]

Having a bit of a problem with every column after the 2nd column.  For this particular sort each model contains 8 columns of particular data for that particular model (column 1).  Looking to keep this data attached to the model when doing the 2nd sort via the model #.

I've attached the sub-vi to give a better look at this.

Any thoughts?

[Darin.K]

Looking at your SubVI I assume that the number of columns is fixed.  In that case, you could do something like this.

[Darin.K]

I must have had clusters on the brain, this is good for any number of columns.

[jonathanupr]

Very decent solution.  Thanks Darin.

How would you implement sorting for.... per say the 5th column or 3rd column?

[Darin.K]

To sort on a different column I would typically build a cluster with that column and original index to produce a key which I then use to shuffle the array.

To do more complex sorting I'd probably go green.