Has sortrows disappeard?

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Hi
Apparently there use to be a function sortrows() in julia, that sorted the rows of matrix A lexicographically.
It seems that this function has disappeared, am I wrong?

Michael.

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you could write this as sort(A, dims=2). I’m not sure if sortrows used to be a function.

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Functions that have disappeared were deprecated in some version of Julia, usually 0.7. Running that version gives a helpful hint what you can do instead (not always the best solution, but a solution).

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julia> sortrows(rand(2, 2))
┌ Warning: `sortrows(A::AbstractMatrix; kws...)` is deprecated, use `sortslices(A, dims=1, kws...)` instead.
│   caller = top-level scope at none:0
└ @ Core none:0
2×2 Array{Float64,2}:
 0.135429  0.150462
 0.391157  0.297061

Note, deprecations and removals don’t happen in minor Julia 1.x releases but were somewhat frequent in the 0.x times.

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