Sorting a string according to the values of a vector of type double

I have a vector A with numbers of type double. Two of the values of A are the same, e.g.,

A = [1.1 2.3 4.4 2.3 5.1];

I also have a corresponding string, e.g.,

vegetables = {'carrots' 'lettuce' 'cabbage' 'parsley' 'tomatoes'};

I want to order A in increasing values and re-arrange the string accordingly. If a value appears more than once, as is the case here, how do I make sure it's still counted? So here in this simple example I should end up with:

A = [1.1 2.3 2.3 4.4 5.1];
vegatables={'carrots' 'lettuce' 'parsley' 'cabbage' 'tomatoes'};

I tried to do this by

[~,idx] = ismember(sort(A),A);
vegatables_ordered = vegetables(idx);
A_ordered = sort(A);

But that doesn't get the string right. How do I do this? There won't be duplicate values in all cases, but I want to account for this possibility shown here.

Answer 1

[Les Beckham]

It should be as simple as this unless I misunderstand what you are expecting.

A = [1.1 2.3 4.4 2.3 5.1];
vegetables = {'carrots' 'lettuce' 'parsley' 'cabbage' 'tomatoes'};
[As,idx] = sort(A)

As = 1×5

1.1000 2.3000 2.3000 4.4000 5.1000

idx = 1×5

1 2 4 3 5

vegetables(idx)

ans = 1×5 cell array
    {'carrots'}    {'lettuce'}    {'cabbage'}    {'parsley'}    {'tomatoes'}

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

Take a look at the second output from the sort function.