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list sorter

world's simplest list tool

This is a super simple browser-based application that sorts items in a list and arranges them in increasing or decreasing order. You can sort the items alphabetically, numerically, or by their length. You can also remove duplicate and empty items, as well as trim individual items that have whitespace around them. You can use any separator character to separate the input list items or alternatively use a regular expression to separate them. Additionally, you can create a new delimiter for the sorted output list. Created by list geeks from team Browserling.

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᠎᠎᠎        Tool Options

Input Item Separator

Delimit input list items
with a character.
Delimit input list items
with a regular expression.
Set a delimiting symbol or
regular expression.

Sort Method

Select a sorting method.
Select sorting order.
Sort uppercase and lowercase
items separately. Capital
letters precede lowercase
letters in an ascending list.
(Works only in alphabetical
sorting mode.)

Sorted Item Properties

Use this symbol as a joiner
between items in a sorted list.
Delete duplicate list items.
Delete no-character list items.
Remove spaces around items.

What is a list sorter?

This online tool changes the order of all list items so that they are sorted. When it rearranges the items, they can go either in ascending or descending order. Since lists can contain anything, including letters and numbers, and items can have different lengths, you can switch between four sorting methods: alphabetical, numerical, sorting by length, and sorting by complexity. The alphabetical method rearranges all the items according to the positions of characters in the ASCII/Unicode table. If the "Case Sensitive Sort" option is enabled, then in the ascending sort order, all items that start with a capital letter will go first, and only then all lowercase letter items will follow. If you turn this option off, the program will consider uppercase and lowercase letters to be the same and will sort the items together, regardless of their case. The numerical method sorts numbers based on their magnitude. If there are also letters or characters when the numerical method is used, then they are sorted in alphanumerical order. The sorting by length method counts the number of characters in each item and puts them either from the shortest to longest item, or from the longest to shortest item. The sort-by-complexity method measures the entropy of each item in the list. The item's entropy is a measure of its randomness and predictability based on characters in it. For example, an item "aaaaa" is very predictable and its entropy is zero, but an item "hjKl4" isn't predictable at all and its entropy is infinite. Therefore, the sort-by-complexity method displays the list items in order from the simplest (most predictable) to the most complex (most random and unpredictable). You can switch between these sorting methods in the options as well as select the sort order of items there. Sometimes items in the list may contain whitespaces around them, so we also added an option to get rid of them and trim them. Additionally, you may remove duplicate and empty list items from the sorted list. When working with lists, they may have various formats (for example, comma-separated, bar-separated, tab-separated, or a single vertical column), so we made this program as generic as possible and it supports all possible list formats. When you load your list, you just have to tell this program how to split it into items. To do that, you just have to specify a list item delimiter character in the "Use a Symbol Separator" option or enter a regular expression that matches multiple delimiter variations in the "Use a Regex Separator" mode. Last but not least, you can specify a custom item delimiter for the output list. If you need to sort a list in random order, then you can use our Randomize a List tool. Also, coming soon, you'll be able to sort a list in a shape of a pyramid, inverse pyramid, or an hourglass. Listabulous!

List sorter examples

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Numeric List Sorting

In this example, we sort a list of perfect numbers in descending order. As all the input items are numbers, we choose the numerical sorting mode. This way, the program compares the numbers by their magnitude and puts them in order from the largest number to the smallest. Perfect numbers are listed in a column, so we separate them with a newline character, and we also use the same newline in the sorted list.

6 28 496 8128 33550336 8589869056 137438691328 2305843008139952128 2658455991569831744654692615953842176
2658455991569831744654692615953842176 2305843008139952128 137438691328 8589869056 33550336 8128 496 28 6
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Delimit input list items
with a character.
Set a delimiting symbol or
regular expression.
Select a sorting method.
Select sorting order.
Sort uppercase and lowercase
items separately. Capital
letters precede lowercase
letters in an ascending list.
(Works only in alphabetical
sorting mode.)
Use this symbol as a joiner
between items in a sorted list.
Delete duplicate list items.
Delete no-character list items.
Remove spaces around items.

Sort Words Alphabetically

In this example, we sort all words in a tongue twister alphabetically. To define words as individual elements of the list, we match them by the regular expression "/ +/", which separates them by the whitespace characters. We select the ascending sorting order (from "a" to "z") and remove all duplicate words. As a result, we get a list of all unique words in alphabetical order that are then separated by em dashes.

give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup
a — coffee — copper — cup — give — in — of — papa — proper
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Delimit input list items
with a regular expression.
Set a delimiting symbol or
regular expression.
Select a sorting method.
Select sorting order.
Sort uppercase and lowercase
items separately. Capital
letters precede lowercase
letters in an ascending list.
(Works only in alphabetical
sorting mode.)
Use this symbol as a joiner
between items in a sorted list.
Delete duplicate list items.
Delete no-character list items.
Remove spaces around items.

Sort a Car Price List

In this example, we rearrange the names of cars with their cost in alphabetic order. The list of cars has two columns that are separated by commas and semicolons. To find the items of the input list, we use the regular expression "/,|;/". This regular expression matches either a comma or a semicolon. We trim list items, remove empty elements, sort the car brands in ascending order, and return a much simpler and easier to read version price list.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;Ford – $15000, Volvo – $18000; ;Tesla – $22000, BMW – $30000; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;VW – $23000, Toyota – $25000; ;KIA – $16000, Audi – $21000; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Audi – $21000 BMW – $30000 Ford – $15000 KIA – $16000 Tesla – $22000 Toyota – $25000 VW – $23000 Volvo – $18000
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Delimit input list items
with a regular expression.
Set a delimiting symbol or
regular expression.
Select a sorting method.
Select sorting order.
Sort uppercase and lowercase
items separately. Capital
letters precede lowercase
letters in an ascending list.
(Works only in alphabetical
sorting mode.)
Use this symbol as a joiner
between items in a sorted list.
Delete duplicate list items.
Delete no-character list items.
Remove spaces around items.

Sort Rows of Pascal's Triangle

In this example, we load a data list that contains rows of binomial coefficients. Unfortunately, our cat walked across the keyboard and broke the order of the rows. To fix the problem, we treat the rows as list items, and to put the rows of Pascal's triangle back in the correct order, we sort the list by the length of items. We select the ascending sort order and get the correct triangle with one number at the vertex and 10 numbers at the base.

1 5 10 10 5 1 1 6 15 20 15 6 1 1 1 9 36 84 126 126 84 36 9 1 1 2 1 1 8 28 56 70 56 28 8 1 1 3 3 1 1 1 1 7 21 35 35 21 7 1 1 4 6 4 1
1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 3 1 1 4 6 4 1 1 5 10 10 5 1 1 6 15 20 15 6 1 1 7 21 35 35 21 7 1 1 8 28 56 70 56 28 8 1 1 9 36 84 126 126 84 36 9 1
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Delimit input list items
with a character.
Set a delimiting symbol or
regular expression.
Select a sorting method.
Select sorting order.
Sort uppercase and lowercase
items separately. Capital
letters precede lowercase
letters in an ascending list.
(Works only in alphabetical
sorting mode.)
Use this symbol as a joiner
between items in a sorted list.
Delete duplicate list items.
Delete no-character list items.
Remove spaces around items.

Sort a List of Phenomena by Length

In this example, we sort a list of natural phenomena by the length of its items. We display the list in descending order, which means that the longest words come first and the shortest ones at the end. We split the input list by the comma character and put a newline as a delimiter in the output.

Thunder, Lightning, Wind, Vortex, Rain, Rainbow, Cloud, Freezing, Snow, Hail, Aurora
Lightning Freezing Rainbow Thunder Aurora Vortex Cloud Hail Snow Rain Wind
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Delimit input list items
with a character.
Set a delimiting symbol or
regular expression.
Select a sorting method.
Select sorting order.
Sort uppercase and lowercase
items separately. Capital
letters precede lowercase
letters in an ascending list.
(Works only in alphabetical
sorting mode.)
Use this symbol as a joiner
between items in a sorted list.
Delete duplicate list items.
Delete no-character list items.
Remove spaces around items.

Sort Phone Numbers by Complexity

In this example, we want to pick an easy-to-remember phone number for our customer support line. To do this, we load a list of phone numbers that are available as the input and set the sorting method to be by item complexity. The program measures how random the digits in each phone number are and displays the simplest phones at the top of the sorted list, followed by numbers that are hard to remember.

+1 505-423-7866 +1 223-590-5555 +1 541-782-3609 +1 505-105-0105 +1 505-277-0025 +1 320-003-0002 +1 505-403-7384 +1 505-505-5050 +1 301-931-5346 +1 500-000-0000 +1 223-627-8639
+1 500-000-0000 +1 505-505-5050 +1 505-105-0105 +1 320-003-0002 +1 223-590-5555 +1 505-277-0025 +1 301-931-5346 +1 223-627-8639 +1 505-403-7384 +1 505-423-7866 +1 541-782-3609
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Delimit input list items
with a character.
Set a delimiting symbol or
regular expression.
Select a sorting method.
Select sorting order.
Sort uppercase and lowercase
items separately. Capital
letters precede lowercase
letters in an ascending list.
(Works only in alphabetical
sorting mode.)
Use this symbol as a joiner
between items in a sorted list.
Delete duplicate list items.
Delete no-character list items.
Remove spaces around items.

Case-sensitive Alphabetical Sorting

In this example, we sort a list of items alphabetically using the "Case-sensitive Sort" mode. If you look closely, our list consists of two parts: celestial bodies (which have a capitalized letter format) and from places on the Earth (which use a small letter format). Once the case-sensitive option is turned on, items with uppercase letters and lowercase letters are sorted separately and in the output, we see all celestial bodies at the beginning of the list and only then follow the locations on the globe.

Sun Moons Meteor Earth Heliosphere country city continent region village
Earth Heliosphere Meteor Moons Sun city continent country region village
Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Delimit input list items
with a character.
Set a delimiting symbol or
regular expression.
Select a sorting method.
Select sorting order.
Sort uppercase and lowercase
items separately. Capital
letters precede lowercase
letters in an ascending list.
(Works only in alphabetical
sorting mode.)
Use this symbol as a joiner
between items in a sorted list.
Delete duplicate list items.
Delete no-character list items.
Remove spaces around items.

Pro tips Master online list tools

You can pass input to this tool via ?input query argument and it will automatically compute output. Here's how to type it in your browser's address bar. Click to try!

https://onlinetools.com/list/sort-list?input=6%0A28%0A496%0A8128%0A33550336%0A8589869056%0A137438691328%0A2305843008139952128%0A2658455991569831744654692615953842176&string-separator=true&input-separator=%255Cn&sort-method=numerically&sort-order=decreasing&remove-duplicates=false&remove-empty-items=false&trim-items=false&join-character=%255Cn&case-sensitive=true

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