how to sort cells by date?

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Amr Hashem
Amr Hashem 2015-8-24
评论: Amr Hashem 2015-8-24
i have a column of dates DD\MM\YYYY, i want to sort them by date .
i try:
sort(A);
but it sorts them by days
how i can do this?
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2015-8-24
Is 11\5\2007 before or after 11/5/2007 ?
Amr Hashem
Amr Hashem 2015-8-24
Are you joking? what do you mean?

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2015-8-24
[~, order] = datenum(A(:,1));
sortedA = A(order,:);
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2015-8-24
编辑:Walter Roberson 2015-8-24
[~, order] = sort(datenum(A(:,1)));
sortedA = A(order,:);
Amr Hashem
Amr Hashem 2015-8-24
Thanks... it works, but it didn't sort all of them.
as I discovered that some of dates written in the form "dd/mm/yyyy" and others "mm/dd/yyyy".
so it seems that I have to convert them first to one form.

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