MATLAB: Sorting cells with headers… how to start sorting at row 2

Question

I know this has to be simple, but I can't for the life of me figure it out.

I have a five Nx6 cell arrays that I'm trying to sort using the sortrows function. The cell arrays have a header row (row 1). It will sort the data, but it treats the header row the same as the other data and sorts it accordingly, moving it from its row 1 position to somewhere else.

Is there a way to use the sortrows function and tell it to sort from row 2 to the end?

For example, cell A is an Nx6 array, and I want to sort it by column 6. I'm using

A = sortrows(A,6);

I've seen something along the lines of

A = sortrows(A,A(2:end,6))

but that's not working.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You have mixed up a bit in your suggestion of the solution:

 sA=[A(1,:);sortrows(A(2:end,:),2)];