how do i sort a single row in terms of descending terms

i was given an excel file with 5 row and 5 columns and i need to sort the first column in terms of descending terms, i managed to successfully open the excel file on matlab

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Do you want to import the data ?

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

[a,b,c]=xlsread('yourfile.xls')
out=sortrows(c,-1)

Answer 2

[Matthias]

If you only want to sort the first column have a look at

   B = sort(A,dim)

http://www.mathworks.de/de/help/matlab/ref/sortrows.html

If you want to sort the whole matrix according to the first column use

B = sortrows(A,-1)

http://www.mathworks.de/de/help/matlab/ref/sortrows.html