how to sort a cell array based on another cell array

basically i have this cell array:

A = {1,18,2,1,6,8,3,1,1,1}

B = {the,keep,up,run,a,fear,have,tik,love,vik}

basically each element in B have the number of occurances in A, what i need to do is i want to sort A in descendant order ( 18,8,6...) but also i want its corresponding B to sort with it how can i achieve that ?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

So 'the' has 1 occurrence, 'keep' has 18 occurrences, 'up' has 2 occurrences, and so on.

Exactly where ARE these occurrences? You did not show any array with those number of occurrences.

So anyway, let's assume A is really a double array instead of a cell array and you want to sort B with the same sort order as A, you'd do this:

A = [1,18,2,1,6,8,3,1,1,1]
B = {'the','keep','up','run','a','fear','have','tik','love','vik'}

[sortedA, sortOrder] = sort(A, 'descend')
B = B(sortOrder)

You'll see

sortedA =

18 8 6 3 2 1 1 1 1 1

sortOrder =

2 6 5 7 3 1 4 8 9 10

B =

1×10 cell array

{'keep'} {'fear'} {'a'} {'have'} {'up'} {'the'} {'run'} {'tik'} {'love'} {'vik'}