Text Sorter - Organize Your Text Lines Instantly

A text sorter is an online utility that organizes lines of text in a specific order. It can sort text alphabetically (A to Z or Z to A), numerically, by line length, or even randomly shuffle the lines. Additional features include removing duplicate lines, case-sensitive sorting options, and natural sorting that properly handles numbers within text.

Regular sorting treats all text as simple strings of characters and sorts them character by character. This can lead to unexpected results when sorting text containing numbers.

For example, regular sorting would order '1, 2, 10, 20' as '1, 10, 2, 20' because it compares characters position by position. Natural sorting, on the other hand, recognizes and compares numbers as whole values, ordering them as '1, 2, 10, 20' as you would naturally expect.

The choice depends on your specific needs:

• Case-sensitive sorting: Use when the case of letters matters, such as in programming where variables might be case-sensitive (e.g., 'Apple' will come before 'banana' because uppercase letters are sorted before lowercase)
• Case-insensitive sorting: Use when you want a true alphabetical sort regardless of capitalization (e.g., 'Apple' and 'apple' would be treated the same and sorted by their alphabetical position)

When the 'Remove Duplicates' option is enabled, the tool identifies and eliminates identical lines from your text, keeping only the first occurrence of each unique line. This is particularly useful for cleaning up lists, removing redundant information, or creating sets of unique values.

You can combine this with other sorting options—for example, first sorting alphabetically and then removing duplicates to get a clean, organized list of unique items.

The Text Sorter tool can handle substantial amounts of text, but browser performance may be affected when processing extremely large volumes (tens of thousands of lines). For most practical purposes, you won't encounter any meaningful limits.

If you need to sort very large amounts of text, consider breaking it into smaller sections or using specialized desktop applications designed for large data processing.

Yes, all text processing happens directly in your browser using JavaScript. Your input text never leaves your device or gets transmitted to any servers. This ensures complete privacy and security when working with sensitive content while also providing instant results without server delays.

Sorting by line length arranges text lines from shortest to longest (or vice versa when reversed). This is useful in several scenarios:

• Writing and content creation: Identifying unusually short or long sentences
• Data cleaning: Finding outliers in data entries
• Programming: Organizing code snippets by complexity or finding the longest/shortest lines
• Text analysis: Examining the distribution of line lengths in a document
• Visual presentation: Creating a 'pyramid' effect in displayed text by arranging lines from shortest to longest