📝 Sort Lines

📝 Input Text

Each line will be sorted according to your selected criteria

🎯 Sort Type

📊 Sort Order

⚙️ Sorting Options

Case sensitive sorting Remove empty lines Remove duplicate lines

⚡ Quick Actions

📤 Sorted Lines

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📊 Statistics

Original:

Lines: {{ stats.original.lines }}

Empty: {{ stats.original.emptyLines }}

Characters: {{ stats.original.characters }}

Words: {{ stats.original.words }}

Result:

Lines: {{ stats.result.lines }}

Empty: {{ stats.result.emptyLines }}

Characters: {{ stats.result.characters }}

Words: {{ stats.result.words }}

🏷️ Applied Settings

Type: {{ getSortTypeLabel() }}

Order: {{ sortOrder ==='asc' ?'Ascending' :'Descending' }}

Case Sensitive: {{ caseSensitive ?'Yes' :'No' }}

Remove Empty: {{ removeEmpty ?'Yes' :'No' }}

Remove Duplicates: {{ removeDuplicates ?'Yes' :'No' }}

💡 Ready to Sort

Enter text lines in the input area to see them sorted according to your selected criteria.

⚠️ {{ error }}

🔄 Sorting lines...

ℹ️ About Sort Lines Tool

Sort Lines Tool rearranges one line per record so you can alphabetize lists, order numeric values, sort by line length, sort date-like entries, reverse a file, or randomize rows before copying the cleaned result. It is useful for quick text cleanup, log triage, word lists, CSV-like snippets, configuration values, and deduplicating pasted data before another tool consumes it.

Common line sorting workflows:

Sort names, hostnames, filenames, package names, tags, keywords, or allowlist entries from A to Z or Z to A.
Clean copied data by removing blank lines and duplicate lines before importing it into a spreadsheet, script, or ticket.
Order standalone numbers such as IDs, ports, counts, versions, or scores without the common text-sort problem where 10 appears before 2.
Sort by length to find the shortest or longest lines in password lists, test cases, log messages, slugs, or content snippets.
Reverse line order for changelogs, queue exports, command output, or any list captured newest-first or oldest-first.

Examples:

Alphabetical input zebra, Alpha, beta becomes Alpha, beta, zebra when case-insensitive ascending sort is selected.
Numeric input 10, 2, 100 should be sorted by value as 2, 10, 100.
Date input such as 2026-05-26, 2024-01-01, and 2025-12-31 is intended for chronological sorting when the dates are written in a parseable format.

Sort modes and cleanup options:

Alphabetical: A-Z or Z-A line sorting, with an optional case-sensitive comparison for exact uppercase/lowercase ordering.
Numerical: Compares standalone numeric lines by value instead of plain text order.
Length: Sorts by byte length, which is handy for finding unusually short or long records.
Date: Sorts lines whose trimmed value can be parsed as a date; ISO-style dates are the safest input.
Random and reverse: Shuffle lines for sampling or invert the current order without changing the line text.
Filters: Remove empty lines and remove duplicate lines before sorting, with duplicate matching affected by the case-sensitive option.

Standards and behavior notes: Browser sorting is based on JavaScript arrays and string comparison behavior defined by ECMAScript Array.prototype.sort. Case-insensitive alphabetic sorting uses locale-aware comparison concepts related to ECMA-402 collation and the Unicode Collation Algorithm. For date sorting, prefer unambiguous ISO/RFC-style timestamps such as 2026-05-26 or 2026-05-26T13:45:00Z; web timestamp conventions are documented in RFC 3339.

Limitations: This tool sorts complete lines, not CSV columns or fields inside each line. Locale-specific collation can differ between environments for accented characters, punctuation, and mixed scripts. Numeric sorting works best when each line is a single number, and date sorting depends on the browser/runtime parser, so ambiguous formats like 05/06/2026 can be interpreted differently. The input stays in your browser for interactive sorting unless you explicitly use the API endpoint.

API Usage Example:

POST /api/tools/text/sort-lines
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "text": "Charlie\nAlice\nBob\nDavid",
    "sortType": "alphabetical",
    "sortOrder": "asc",
    "caseSensitive": false,
    "removeEmpty": true,
    "removeDuplicates": false
}