At one point while I was developing the OrderedDict class in DataStructures.jl, I made it possible to sort it (and sorting regular dictionaries returned an OrderedDict. It should be pretty easy to add that functionality back. You would need to load the DataStructures.jl package, of course.
Cheers, Kevin On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Stefan Karpinski < [email protected]> wrote: > You can use a comprehension over the Dict to get an array of count, string > pairs and then sort that in place, which avoids some copying. > > On Jun 15, 2014, at 3:03 PM, TR NS <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sunday, June 15, 2014 10:48:16 AM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> >> Works for me. What version of Julia are you using? Note that if you have >> the integer before the string in each tuple, you can just sort the array. >> >> > > Turns out I was trying to sort a Dict. Once I wrapped it in collect() it > worked. Seems a little ugly though to first have to convert it to an array > of tuples and then sort using `x->x[2]`. Might there be a way to sort Dicts > directly? (Though obviously the result would not be Dict). > > Good to know about the integer being before the string, though it won't > help in this particular case. The Dict stores a word key and frequency > value. I am counting the frequency of words in a corpus. > > Thanks. > >
