Line Sorter Tool

About this calculator

Sorting a block of text line by line is a small but constant chore in data cleanup: alphabetical sorting arranges lines by their Unicode/character order, numerical sorting reads the leading number in each line and orders by its value rather than as text (so "10" correctly comes after "9" instead of before it), and sorting by length orders lines from shortest to longest — each useful for a different kind of list.

This tool takes any pasted block of lines, sorts them by your chosen method, and can optionally strip out duplicate lines in the same pass. Developers cleaning up log files or config lists, spreadsheet and CSV users prepping data before import, and writers organizing lists — like alphabetizing a bibliography or de-duplicating an email list — use it instead of writing a one-off script for a task that takes seconds in a browser.