Text Line Sorter Tool

• Text deduplicator
• Text splitter
• Word counter
• Text analyzer

Turn messy pasted lists into clean, ordered rows: alphabetical for names, by length for quick scanning, or by word count when line density matters.

Benefits

• Alphabetical: A–Z or Z–A using your locale's string rules.
• By length: shortest or longest lines first.
• By word count: order rows by how many words they hold.
• Dedupe: optional unique lines after sorting.
• Live preview: see sorted output while you edit.

The tool splits input on line breaks, drops blank lines, sorts each non-empty line as a whole string, then joins them back with newline characters.

Features

• Line-based: one sortable row per line (empty rows skipped).
• Five modes: alphabet, reverse alphabet, two length orders, word-count order.
• Stable logic: same input and options yield the same ordering.
• Copy: take the sorted list anywhere.
• Private: runs locally in the browser.

Cleaning guest lists, keywords, filenames, config snippets, or any plain-text bullet list.

Ideal use cases

• Lists: alphabetize names, titles, or tags.
• Data prep: order lines before CSV or spreadsheet work.
• Editing: reorder lines by size or verbosity.
• Dedup + sort: unique lines in a chosen order.
• Quick tasks: avoid spreadsheet formulas for one-off sorts.

Behavior highlights.

Key points

• Sorting uses JavaScript's locale-aware string comparison for A–Z modes.
• Length mode counts characters per line, including spaces.
• Word count splits on whitespace; multiple spaces still count as word boundaries.
• Duplicate removal uses exact string equality after the sort.
• Very large lists may be limited by your device's memory.

Get predictable results.

Quality considerations

• Strip trailing spaces if ordering surprises you—comparison includes them.
• Numeric-looking lines sort as text unless you use another tool for numeric sort.
• Preview before pasting sorted output into production configs or emails.
• Enable dedupe only when you truly want to lose repeated lines.
• For huge files, try a sample first.

Sort mode comparison

• Alphabetical: Fast default for names, tags, and plain labels.
• Natural: Better for mixed labels like item2, item10, item20.
• Length: Good for trimming verbose rows and spotting short outliers.
• Word count: Useful when comparing sentence-like lines by density.

How to sort mixed numeric lines

• Enable Natural numeric sort to handle embedded numbers as numeric values.
• If needed, disable case-sensitive sorting for cleaner grouping of mixed-case labels.
• Enable Trim each line before sort to avoid hidden-space ordering surprises.
• Use Remove duplicates after sorting when you need a unique final list.

Dedupe strategies explained

• Exact match: Only fully identical lines are treated as duplicates.
• Case-insensitive: Text, TEXT, and text are treated as the same line.

After sorting, you can continue cleanup with the Text Deduplicator, split structured blocks in Text Splitter, or measure density in Word Counter.

When not to use

• When you must preserve blank lines exactly between entries.
• When multi-column CSV semantics matter—use a spreadsheet or CSV tool.
• When sort keys are mixed numeric and text and you need numeric ordering.

Plain text lines; rich formatting is not preserved. Requires JavaScript in a modern browser. Locale rules follow the visitor's environment.

Text sorting runs entirely in your browser with no server upload; sorted output updates instantly as you edit options or input lines.