Line Sorter

Paste a list and sort it alphabetically, in reverse, by length or by the first number on each line. The sort is stable, so equal lines keep their order.

100% Client-Side Processing

How to use

Paste your list, one item per line.
Choose a sort order. The result appears immediately.
Turn on Natural sorting if your lines contain numbers, such as file names or chapters.
Choose what to do with blank lines, then copy or download the result.

Features

Alphabetical (A to Z) and reverse alphabetical (Z to A) using your browser's language-aware collation.
Sort by line length, shortest or longest first, counting characters rather than bytes.
Numeric sorting by the first number found on each line, low to high or high to low.
Case-insensitive or case-sensitive comparison.
Natural sorting, so item 2 sorts before item 10.
Stable sorting: lines that compare as equal keep the order they had.

Rules to know

Numeric sorting reads the first number on a line (commas as thousands separators are allowed, for example 1,200). Lines with no number are placed after the lines that have one, in alphabetical order.
Blank lines sort to the top in alphabetical order. You can remove them or move them to the end instead. Lines containing only spaces count as blank.
Alphabetical order follows your browser's language rules, so accented letters sort next to their base letters. Different browsers can order unusual characters slightly differently.

Examples

Input

item 10
item 2
item 1

A to Z

item 1
item 10
item 2

Input

item 10
item 2
item 1

A to Z with natural sorting

item 1
item 2
item 10

Input

cherry
fig
banana

Shortest first

fig
cherry
banana

FAQs

Why does 10 come before 2 in A to Z?

Plain alphabetical order compares characters from the left, so 1 comes before 2. Turn on Natural sorting, or use Number sorting, to order by value.

What does stable sorting mean?

When two lines compare as equal, for example the same length, they stay in the order they had in your input.

How are lines without numbers treated in number sort?

They are placed after all numbered lines and sorted alphabetically.

Is sorting case-sensitive?

Ignoring case is on by default, so apple and Banana sort by their letters. Turn it off to treat uppercase and lowercase as different.

Is my text uploaded?

No. Sorting runs in your browser.

About this tool

Line Sorter orders any list that has one item per line: names, keywords, file names, numbers and log entries.

It uses the sort rules built into your browser and documents the choices above, so results are predictable.

Keyboard

Ctrl + Enter: Copy the result (Cmd + Enter on Mac).
Esc: Closes an open information panel or menu. It never clears your text.
Tab: Moves between boxes and buttons.

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