TableSaw: Sort the elements of a table

‘sortOn’ method is used to sort the elements of a table based on column contents.

public Table sortOn(String... columnNames)

public Table sortOn(int... columnIndexes)

Example

Table sorted = table.sortOn("FirstName", "LastName");

App.java

package com.sample.app;

import tech.tablesaw.api.IntColumn;
import tech.tablesaw.api.StringColumn;
import tech.tablesaw.api.Table;

public class App {

  public static void main(String args[]) {
    int[] empIds = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 };
    String[] firstNames = { "Hari", "Ram", "Sowmya", "Chamu", "Swethank", "Chamu" };
    String[] lastNames = { "Krishna", "Gurram", "Maj", "Maj", "Baji", "Gurram" };

    Table table = Table.create().addColumns(IntColumn.create("Employee Id", empIds))
        .addColumns(StringColumn.create("FirstName", firstNames))
        .addColumns(StringColumn.create("LastName", lastNames));

    Table sorted = table.sortOn("FirstName", "LastName");
    
    System.out.println(table.print());
    System.out.println(sorted.print());
    
  }
}

Output

Employee Id  |  FirstName  |  LastName  |
------------------------------------------
           1  |       Hari  |   Krishna  |
           2  |        Ram  |    Gurram  |
           3  |     Sowmya  |       Maj  |
           4  |      Chamu  |       Maj  |
           5  |   Swethank  |      Baji  |
           6  |      Chamu  |    Gurram  |
 Employee Id  |  FirstName  |  LastName  |
------------------------------------------
           6  |      Chamu  |    Gurram  |
           4  |      Chamu  |       Maj  |
           1  |       Hari  |   Krishna  |
           2  |        Ram  |    Gurram  |
           3  |     Sowmya  |       Maj  |
           5  |   Swethank  |      Baji  |

‘sortOn’ method sorts the elements in ascending order. If you want to sort the elements of table in descending order, you can use 'sortDescendingOn' method.

Example

Table sorted = table.sortDescendingOn("FirstName", "LastName");

App.java

package com.sample.app;

import tech.tablesaw.api.IntColumn;
import tech.tablesaw.api.StringColumn;
import tech.tablesaw.api.Table;

public class App {

  public static void main(String args[]) {
    int[] empIds = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 };
    String[] firstNames = { "Hari", "Ram", "Sowmya", "Chamu", "Swethank", "Chamu" };
    String[] lastNames = { "Krishna", "Gurram", "Maj", "Maj", "Baji", "Gurram" };

    Table table = Table.create().addColumns(IntColumn.create("Employee Id", empIds))
        .addColumns(StringColumn.create("FirstName", firstNames))
        .addColumns(StringColumn.create("LastName", lastNames));

    Table sorted = table.sortDescendingOn("FirstName", "LastName");
    
    System.out.println(table.print());
    System.out.println("\nAfter Sorting\n");
    System.out.println(sorted.print());
    
  }
}

Output

Employee Id  |  FirstName  |  LastName  |
------------------------------------------
           1  |       Hari  |   Krishna  |
           2  |        Ram  |    Gurram  |
           3  |     Sowmya  |       Maj  |
           4  |      Chamu  |       Maj  |
           5  |   Swethank  |      Baji  |
           6  |      Chamu  |    Gurram  |

After Sorting

 Employee Id  |  FirstName  |  LastName  |
------------------------------------------
           5  |   Swethank  |      Baji  |
           3  |     Sowmya  |       Maj  |
           2  |        Ram  |    Gurram  |
           1  |       Hari  |   Krishna  |
           4  |      Chamu  |       Maj  |
           6  |      Chamu  |    Gurram  |

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