how to arrenge timeseries data ?

hi. I have created a mat file(attached). Here first column is date and second column is data.

dates here are poorly arranged.like as follow.

 01-Apr-2012
01-Apr-2013
01-Apr-2014
01-Apr-2015
01-Apr-2016
.
.
.
.
01-Jul-2013
01-Jul-2014
01-Jul-2015
01-Jul-2016
01-Jun-2012
01-Jun-2013
01-Jun-2014
01-Jun-2015
01-Jun-2016
01-Mar-2012
01-Mar-2013
.
.
.
01-Oct-2014
01-Oct-2015
01-Sep-2012
01-Sep-2013
01-Sep-2014
01-Sep-2015

I want here data monthly arranged from Jan to December, from 2012 to 2015. any idea how to make it possible.? hope you understand.

Answer 1

[KL]

use sort?

 [~,indx] = sort(data(:,1));
 sortedData = data(indx,:);