# Sort Text Lines

Quickly sort lines alphabetically, numerically, or by their length

> Canonical page: https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/text-basic-sorter

- **Category:** Text Processing

- **Keywords:** text, sort, lines, alphabetical, numerical, length, basic, Text Basic Sorter

## Overview

Sort Text Lines is a straightforward utility designed to organize your text data by arranging lines alphabetically, numerically, or by length. Whether you need to clean up a list, remove duplicates, or randomize your data, this tool provides a fast and efficient way to reorder your content.

## Inputs

- **Text Input** (textarea): Enter text to sort...
- **Sort By** (select)
- **Sort Order** (select)
- **Case Sensitive** (checkbox): Sort with case sensitivity (Aa-Zz)
- **Remove Duplicates** (checkbox): Remove duplicate lines while sorting
- **Trim Lines** (checkbox): Remove leading/trailing whitespace from lines before sorting

## When to use

- Organizing disorganized lists or raw data exports into a readable sequence.
- Cleaning up datasets by removing duplicate entries and trimming unnecessary whitespace.
- Preparing data for programming or documentation by sorting items by length or numerical value.

## How it works

- Paste your text into the input area, ensuring each item is on a new line.
- Select your preferred sorting criteria, such as alphabetical, numerical, or line length.
- Toggle optional settings like 'Remove Duplicates' or 'Trim Lines' to refine your output.
- Click the process button to instantly generate your sorted text list.

## Use cases

- Alphabetizing a list of names or email addresses for easier lookup.
- Sorting numerical IDs or version numbers in ascending or descending order.
- Cleaning up configuration files by removing duplicate entries and trimming whitespace.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can I sort lines in reverse order?

Yes, you can select 'Reverse Alphabetical' or 'Reverse Length' from the sorting options to flip the order.

### Does this tool handle case sensitivity?

Yes, you can enable the 'Case Sensitive' checkbox to ensure uppercase and lowercase letters are treated distinctly during sorting.

### Will this tool remove empty lines?

While it does not automatically delete empty lines, you can use the 'Trim Lines' feature to clean up whitespace, and duplicates can be removed using the 'Remove Duplicates' option.

### Is there a limit to how much text I can sort?

The tool is designed for standard text processing tasks; for extremely large files, it is recommended to process them in smaller chunks.

### Can I randomize the order of my lines?

Yes, select the 'Random Shuffle' option from the 'Sort By' dropdown to randomize your list.

## Related tools

- [Sort Text Lines Enhanced](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/text-enhanced-sorter): Sort lines alphabetically, numerically, or by their length with advanced options
- [Randomize Text Lines](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/randomize-text-lines): Quickly randomize the order of lines in text
- [Remove Duplicate Lines](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/remove-duplicate-lines): Deduplicate lines in a list or text block. Keep the first or last occurrence, with options for case sensitivity, whitespace trimming, and dropping empty lines.
- [Advanced Duplicate Line Remover](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/advanced-duplicate-line-remover): Detect and remove duplicate lines with advanced options for mode, case sensitivity, and trimming
- [Remove a Prefix from Text Lines](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/text-remove-prefix-lines): Quickly remove a prefix from one or more text lines
- [Remove a Prefix from Text](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/text-remove-prefix-text): Quickly remove a prefix from one or more text lines
- [Remove a Suffix from Text Lines](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/text-remove-suffix-lines): Quickly remove a suffix from one or more text lines
- [Text NLP Annotation Workbench](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/text-nlp-annotation-workbench): Run explainable local tokenization, sentence splitting, stopword, lemma, stem, entity and n-gram annotation with JSONL or CoNLL export.

## Samples

- [Text with Emoji Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/text-with-emoji-samples): Mixed language text containing various Unicode emojis for testing emoji extraction
- [Duplicate Line Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/text-duplicate-line-samples): Sample files with various types of duplicate lines for testing duplicate removal tools
- [Special Characters Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/text-special-characters-samples): Sample text files with various special characters, punctuation, and symbols for testing non-alphanumeric character removal
- [Android File Operations Java Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/android-file-operations-java): Android Java file operations examples including text file read/write, file copy/move, directory traversal, and file validation

## Related content

- [Deterministic Text List Cleanup and Line-Order Workflow](https://elysiatools.com/en/hubs/text-list-cleanup-workflows): Turn pasted or exported text into a repeatable list by defining line boundaries, normalizing whitespace, removing duplicates, filtering entries, and choosing an explicit order.