how to process in descending order

Sir I have done as per your command,but please tell how to do it in descending order,I used the word descend ,but it showed an error ,please can u help

data = reshape({5 'R' 3 'E' 1 'A' 4 'P'},2,[])' out = sortrows(data,1)

or

out = reshape(sortrows(data,1)',1,[])

if

data(:,1)=cellfun(@num2str,data(:,1),'un',0) out = sortrows(data,1)

Answer 1

[Oleg Komarov]

out = flipud(sortrows(data,1))

Answer 2

[Andrei Bobrov]

out = sortrows(data,-1)

[Andrei Bobrov]

read it http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/15896-how-to-sort-data

[Oleg Komarov]

I completely forgot about the -1, +1!

Answer 3

[the cyclist]

When you included the word "descend", did you include it in single quotes, like this:

 >> sort(x,'descend')

Maybe you should show what you tried, and tell us the error message you got.