SortBy second item in each list item

Question

I have:

mydata = {{1, "NEBRASKA", 2.7`}, {2, "NORTH DAKOTA", 3.`}, {3, "UTAH",
    3.6`}, {3, "VERMONT", 3.6`}, {5, "HAWAII", 3.7`}}

Now, I can do:

SortBy[mydata,First]

And:

SortBy[mydata,Last]

But how do I sort by the second item in each list?

With version-10 operator forms: mydata // SortBy@Extract@2 — Mr.Wizard, Sep 08 '15 at 21:42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '15 at 21:37

2

Try

SortBy[mydata,#[[2]]&]

the supplied function should select the second element of each entry as the sort-by value.

answered Sep 08 '15 at 21:37

azt

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