Question: Operations on matrices

Dear Maple users

I have a question about performing operations on a matrix and another one about retrieving information from a matrix. I am looking for the easiest (hopefully also the shortest) way to do it:

1. Given a matrix with several rows and columns. I want to permute the rows in such a way that the entries in a specific column are ordered (either ascending or decending as wished).

2. Given a matrix with several rows and columns. I want to count how many entries in a specific column are above a certain given fixed value.   

I am pretty sure some of you guys out there can do it in an elegant way. Examples will be appreciated.  

Regards,

Erik

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