Text Sorter

This tool is a general-purpose line sorter, it handles both alphabetical and numerical sorting for any kind of list, numbers, mixed content, code, or plain words. Our Alphabetizer, by contrast, is purpose-built for alphabetizing named lists (like bibliography entries or a list of authors), including an option to ignore leading articles ('a', 'an', 'the') when sorting, a specific convention this general sorter doesn't apply.

Alphabetical sorting compares lines as text, character by character. Numerical sorting instead parses the leading number from each line and compares those values directly, so '9' correctly sorts before '10' (alphabetical sorting would place '10' before '9', since '1' comes before '9' character by character).