Sorting an array without regard to the sign of the numbers

I have an Array of 7765 x 4 that I want to sort. It looks like this:

1110	-390.121000	    -10.454900	    -0.01882277
1501	3.187177047	    5.32644003	    167.2790029
1805	4.821873268 	5.60381016	    190.0584265
2109	4.722658634	    5.56606016	    190.5110412
2413	3.200538391 	5.10077007	    167.6860615

I want to sort it in a way that the largest value in terms of amount from columns 2 to 4 is in column 2. The problem is that I don't want to lose the sign of the values. For the example it should look like this in the end

1110	-390.121000	    -10.454900	    -0.01882277
1501    167.2790029     5.32644003      3.187177047
1805    190.0584265     5.60381016      4.821873268
2109	190.5110412     5.56606016      4.722658634
2413	167.6860615     5.10077007      3.200538391

Has anyone any Idea how I can do that?

Answer 1

[Patrick Benz]

Well ... if anyone else has issues understanding the documentation of "sort" when first reading it, here is how I solved it

test=sort(test(:,2:4),2,'descend','ComparisonMethod','abs');

pretty damn easy :D