Problem 574. Sort numbers by outside digits

Created by Michael Katz

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goc3 on 15 Mar 2017

Additional test cases have been added.

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bainhome on 7 May 2015

Using flag"-" to sort string data,impressive!

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Michael Katz on 12 Apr 2012

I did have another solution using mod, but I hadn't thought of num2str. Good job.

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