[Haskell-beginners] Sorting

[mike h]

Hi,

I’m trying to sort a list of tuples. A char and a count of that char (Char , Int) 
e.g.

[ ('r',2), ('c',2),('a', 2), ('b',3), ('f',2)]

e.g. ‘r’ occurs twice etc.
The order should be based on the count first and then ties broken by the 
natural ordering of char.
So 
[ ('r',2), ('c',2),('a', 2), ('b',3), ('f',2)]

will sort as

[('b',3),('a', 2), ('c',2),('f',2), ('r',2)]

I initially tried variants on
sortBy (compare `on` snd)

and then made a type Tup = T (Char, Int)
and defined Eq and then got to the point where I felt that this had become too difficult for a simple problem and concluded that I’m missing a point somewhere and need a bit of help!

Many thanks
M
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