Text Sorter

In short Sorting lines puts a list in order alphabetically, numerically, by length or randomly, ascending or descending. The distinction that catches people is alphabetical against numerical: sorted as text, 10 comes before 2, because sorting compares character by character and "1" is before "2". That is correct alphabetical behaviour and almost never what you want for a list of numbers, which is why a numeric mode exists. The same effect explains why version numbers and dates written as text sort wrongly, and why ISO dates — 2026-08-15 — were designed so that alphabetical and chronological order are the same thing. Case sensitivity is the other decision. A strict sort puts all the capitals before all the lowercase letters, so "Zebra" comes before "apple", because that is the order of their character codes. A case-insensitive sort gives the order a person expects. Sorting by length is the odd one out and is genuinely useful for finding outliers: the longest and shortest entries in a list are where the errors usually are.