Text Sorter

Sorted 3 line(s) ascending.

How it works

• Normalised CRLF and lone CR line endings to LF.
• Kept every line.
• Compared lines as text.
• Folded case before comparing.
• Ordered the lines ascending by Unicode code point, keeping input order for ties.

• The comparison is locale-independent so the output is deterministic.
• Sorting already-sorted output changes nothing (idempotent).

Methodology

1. Normalise CRLF and lone CR to LF and split into lines.
2. Optionally remove duplicate lines first, keeping the first occurrence.
3. Compare by a leading number when numeric mode is on and both lines have one, otherwise by Unicode code point.
4. Fold case first when the comparison is case-insensitive.
5. Reverse the comparison for descending order while keeping input order for ties.

Usage

1. Paste the list, one item per line.
2. Choose the direction and comparison options.
3. Run the tool and copy the sorted text.

Examples

These are examples, not current values: they use fixed inputs, while the interactive tool computes live results in your browser.

Alphabetical ascending

{
  "text": "banana\napple\ncherry",
  "direction": "asc",
  "caseSensitive": false,
  "numeric": false,
  "unique": false
}

Numeric descending

{
  "text": "10\n2\n1",
  "direction": "desc",
  "caseSensitive": false,
  "numeric": true,
  "unique": false
}

Unique sorted

{
  "text": "b\na\nb",
  "direction": "asc",
  "caseSensitive": true,
  "numeric": false,
  "unique": true
}

Limitations

Deterministic sorting

Sorting that depends on the visitor's locale can produce different output on different machines. This tool uses code-point order so the same input always yields the same sorted list.