How to sort on column for rows containing a certain word

Question

I want to sort on a certain column only for rows containing a certain word. I don\'t want to see rows not containing that word. For example I have this text file:

Answer 1

Sort by 2nd column by selecting it in visual mode (e.g. Control+v), then run:

!sort

or to sort by 3rd column

sort -k 3 

or

:sort /.*\%3v/

Alternatively select the lines you wish to sort using the Shift+V command. Then enter

!sort -k 3n

or use the below code to tell Vim to skip the first two words in every line and sort on whatever follows:

:%sort /^\S\+\s\+\S\+\s\+/ 

or i.e. sort by 8th line:

:sort /.*\%55v/

The 'virtual' specification is the absolute number of column , which treats spaces + tabs as single character (shortly, it doesn't count tabs as eight spaces),

so to sort by last column:

:%sort /\<\S\+\>$/ r