How does it work?

This tool sorts lines of text by their length in ascending order, with the shortest lines appearing first and the longest lines last. The sorting is based solely on the number of characters in each line, not on the content or alphabetical order.

The sorting follows these rules:

• Each line is treated as a separate item to sort
• Lines are sorted by the number of characters they contain
• Shorter lines appear before longer lines
• Empty lines (length 0) appear at the beginning
• If two lines have the same length, their original order is preserved

Example

This is a very long line of text that will be sorted last.
A short line.
Medium length line here.
Tiny.
Another fairly long line that contains many characters.
Ok.

Ok.
Tiny.
A short line.
Medium length line here.
Another fairly long line that contains many characters.
This is a very long line of text that will be sorted last.

This tool is useful for:

• Finding the shortest and longest lines in a text
• Organizing content by complexity (assuming longer lines are more complex)
• Preparing data for visual presentation where line length matters
• Identifying one-word or short responses in a list of comments or feedback
• Sorting code snippets or commands by their length

Parameters

• Text to sort: The input text containing multiple lines that you want to sort
• Sort order: Ascending by character count (shortest lines first)

Note: This sort is based purely on character count, not on word count or semantic meaning. A line with many short words might be longer than a line with a few long words.

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• Sort Case-Sensitive Z-a - Sort text in reverse case-sensitive order
• Count Words - Count the number of words in each line