Sort any list of numbers or text items. Choose from multiple sorting algorithms - numeric ascending/descending, alphabetical A-Z/Z-A, natural sort (handles mixed text and numbers correctly), or sort by length. Support for multiple input formats (one per line, comma-separated, space-separated, or custom delimiter), duplicate removal, and whitespace trimming.
Paste your list into the input textarea. Select the input delimiter: 'One per line' (default), 'Comma separated', 'Space separated', 'Tab separated', or enter a custom delimiter. Choose a sort mode: Numeric Ascending, Numeric Descending, Alphabetical A-Z, Alphabetical Z-A, By Length (shortest first), By Length (longest first), or Natural Sort. Check optional settings: 'Remove duplicates' to eliminate repeated items, 'Trim whitespace' to clean up spacing, 'Ignore case' for case-insensitive sorting. The output updates automatically as you change settings. Copy the result when ready.
List sorting is useful for: organizing data exports from spreadsheets and databases, sorting IP addresses, version numbers, and file names with natural sort, arranging name lists alphabetically for directories and reports, sorting numeric data for quick analysis, cleaning up and deduplicating lists before import, organizing configuration values and environment variables, sorting CSS property values for consistent code style, preparing ordered lists for documentation, and analyzing data distributions by sorting and comparing.
The tool implements multiple sorting algorithms using JavaScript's Array.sort() with custom comparator functions. Numeric sort uses parseFloat() comparison. Alphabetical sort uses String.localeCompare() for locale-aware ordering. Natural sort splits strings into alternating text and number segments, comparing text segments lexicographically and number segments numerically - this correctly orders sequences like 'file1, file2, file10' instead of the naive 'file1, file10, file2'. The by-length sort compares string lengths. Duplicate removal uses a Set for O(1) lookup performance.
Natural sort handles strings containing numbers the way humans expect. Instead of sorting 'file1, file10, file2' (strict alphabetical), natural sort produces 'file1, file2, file10' by comparing numeric segments as numbers rather than characters. This is ideal for file names, version numbers, and mixed text-number data.
Yes. Select 'Comma separated' as the delimiter, paste your comma-separated values, and the tool will split them into individual items for sorting. The result is output in the same comma-separated format.
When 'Remove duplicates' is checked, identical items are eliminated after trimming (if enabled) but before sorting. If 'Ignore case' is also checked, duplicates are compared case-insensitively (so 'Apple' and 'apple' are considered the same). The stats display shows how many duplicates were found and removed.
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