[Tutor] Sorting 2-d data

[Wayne]

Hi,
I have a set of data that looks something like this:

3, 4, 3, 2, 1
2, 1, 1, 1, 1
4, 2, 2, 1, 2
1, 3, 1, 1, 1

I want to be able to sort it by the first column, keeping the rest of the
values in the same position relative to the original:

1, 3, 1, 1, 1
2, 1, 1, 1, 1
3, 4, 3, 2, 1
4, 2, 2, 1, 2

and I'm wondering if there are any included ways to sort data like this.
I've currently got a 2d list by columns, but I could easily convert that to
rows if it would work better.

I'm about to check if sorting a list of lists will work in that fashion.

Thanks for any help/advice,
Wayne

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