MATLAB: How to sort the elements of an array within a given range

Question

Hai,

I used the sort() function to sort the elements of a row matrix in ascending order. Example: a=[2 5 1 3 4]; sort(a); the result was a=[1 2 3 4 5]. But I do not want to sort all the elements, I need to sort the elements only from the 2nd element till the 4th element in the above matrix. Is it possible to do this using sort(). I read doc sort, but could not find a solution to my problem. Looking for your reply.

BSD

Answer 1

a=[2 5 1 3 4];
a(2:4) = sort(a(2:4))