Sort lines

Lists rarely arrive in the order you want: a collection of names, email addresses, terms or log lines wants to be sorted, freed of duplicates or flipped. This tool takes your multi-line text and brings the lines into the chosen shape - alphabetically ascending or descending, deduplicated or in reverse order. What would otherwise need a spreadsheet or a script is one click here.

Four extra switches refine the result: trim each line cuts away distracting spaces at the start and end, remove empty lines clears gaps, ignore case makes Apple and apple count as equal when sorting and deduplicating, and sort numbers naturally compares digit runs as whole numbers, so 2 comes before 10. Sorting is stable and deterministic - purely by character code unless the numbers switch is on - so the output is reproducible and independent of your device language settings.

All processing runs entirely locally in your browser in pure JavaScript - your text is not uploaded, not stored, and no foreign library is loaded from a CDN. That matters precisely for address lists or log excerpts, which can contain personal data. You can download the result as a text file or copy it straight out.

Specifications

In 3 steps

1. Paste multi-line text into the text field.
2. Choose the action and set the extra switches if needed.
3. Read the result or download it as a text file.

Limitations: Sorting is by Unicode character code (deterministic and language-independent), not by the collation rules of a particular language - so digits and uppercase letters come before lowercase letters unless you choose to ignore case. With sort numbers naturally, digit runs are compared as whole numbers (2 before 10); that stays deterministic too. Comparison is per line, not per word. Very large texts are limited by your device memory.

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