Use Sort with Strings?

Questions
1

The Sort command below provided an unexpected result.
Could someone describe how to modify this code to Sort based on the Strings in the 3rd column of the array?

Sort[{{a, 2, "az"}, {c, 1, "aa"}, {d, 3, "ba"}}, #1[[3]] < #2[[3]] &]

Result is: {{a, 2, “az”}, {c, 1, “aa”}, {d, 3, “ba”}}

Expected: {{c, 1, “aa”}, {a, 2, “az”}, {d, 3, “ba”}}

Documentation indicates that Sort orders strings like a dictionary, Sort documentation page

2

Less does not work with strings, as in e.g. "az" < "aa".

Try something like

Sort[{{a, 2, "az"}, {c, 1, "aa"}, {d, 3, "ba"}}, Order[#1[[3]], #2[[3]]] &]

or

SortBy[{{a, 2, "az"}, {c, 1, "aa"}, {d, 3, "ba"}}, Part[#, 3] &]
3

EDIT: I guess he is asking for sorting by part 3, so you’re right. A little simpler to use “Last”:

SortBy[{{a, 2, "az"}, {c, 1, "aa"}, {d, 3, "ba"}}, Last]

Looking at his expected results, it looks like he wants to sort by Part[#,2]&

SortBy[{{a, 2, "az"}, {c, 1, "aa"}, {d, 3, "ba"}}, Part[#, 2] &]

Returns

{{c, 1, "aa"}, {a, 2, "az"}, {d, 3, "ba"}}
4

Looking at his expected results, it looks like he wants to sort by Part[#,2]&

That is not how I read “Sort based on the Strings in the 3rd column”

5

You were faster in responding than I was in editing my original post. I agree with you.