About the sort lines
Natural order is the default because it is almost always what a person means. A plain alphabetical sort puts item10 before item9, because it compares character by character and '1' sorts before '9'.
Sorting by length breaks ties alphabetically, so the result is stable and repeatable rather than depending on the order the lines arrived in.
Frequently asked questions
- Is my text sent anywhere?
- No. Everything runs inside your browser. Nothing you paste or type is uploaded, stored or logged, and the page keeps working with the network disconnected.
- What is natural sort?
- A sort that reads runs of digits as numbers rather than as characters, so file2 comes before file10. It is what a file manager does and what almost everyone expects from a list of versions or filenames.
- Does it remove duplicates?
- No, sorting keeps every line. Use the duplicate remover for that; running both in turn gives a sorted unique list.
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