MATLAB: How to get first 3 maximum number in a matrix

Question

Suppose I have a matrix m:

m = [7;1;4;4;12;2;6;10;2];

I want to find first 3 maximum in matrix m, means like:

n = [7;12;10]; % sorting is not issue

Answer 1

temp = sort( m, 'descend' );
n = temp(1:3);