Sort Lines Alphabetically

Organize your text by sorting lines alphabetically with our free online sorter. Whether you have a list of names, items, or data entries, this tool quickly arranges them in order.

**Sorting Options:**
- **A to Z (ascending)**: Standard alphabetical order
- **Z to A (descending)**: Reverse alphabetical order
- **Case-insensitive**: Treats "Apple" and "apple" the same
- **Case-sensitive**: Uppercase letters sort before lowercase

**Common Sorting Tasks:**
- Alphabetize name lists
- Organize glossary entries
- Sort inventory items
- Arrange bibliographies
- Order product catalogs
- Clean up data exports

**How Alphabetical Sorting Works:**

Lines are compared character by character from left to right. The first difference determines the order. Numbers sort before letters in ASCII order, so "1 apple" comes before "Apple".

**Special Sorting Features:**

**Natural Number Sorting:**
Standard sorting puts "item10" before "item2" (because 1 < 2 character-by-character). Natural sorting understands numbers as values, correctly ordering item1, item2, ... item10.

**Handling Duplicates:**

The sorter preserves duplicate lines unless you enable duplicate removal. You can sort and remove duplicates in one operation for clean, unique lists.

**Empty Lines:**

Choose whether to keep, remove, or collect empty lines at the beginning or end of your sorted output.

**Developer Tip:**

This tool is perfect for sorting configuration files, .gitignore entries, environment variables, or any line-based data that benefits from alphabetical organization.