Reference Lists

Lists for your reference

We've made available some lists for your reference.

Please send us any lists that you think would be useful for others in the community. We'll include them here so others can benefit from your hard work.

Clear Document

Erase Entire Document

Clear the document, so you can start again.

If you hit this button accidentally, just hit "Undo", and we'll fix you up again.

Undo

Undo last operation

If you make a mistake and do something wrong, press the undo button to make it go back to the way things were.

Redo

Redo last Undo

Oops, that undo you did was a mistake. Undo your undo with a redo!

File

File Operations

• Load from Harddrive
• Save to Harddrive
• Print

Load
from Hard Drive

Load a text file from your local hard drive.

It's not necessary to copy and paste your data in order to sort it. Find your text file on your hard drive, load it, and we'll get started.

Save to Hard Drive

Save your finished list to your local hard drive.

This will save a copy of your list as a text file to your hard drive.

Print List

Print your list to your printer

Sort

Sort Operations

A powerful set of sorting algorithms.

We continue to add sorts based on user requests.

If you need a sort that you don't see here, please send us a sample data set, and a brief description of how the sort should work.

Change Case

Case Change Operations

Change the case of your text.

Your text can be made more legible by selecting the correct case for the application that you're using it for.

To Lower Case

change all characters to their lower case version

you can make all your text be lower case.

To Upper Case

CHANGE ALL TEXT TO IT'S UPPER CASE VERSION

YOU CAN MAKE ALL YOUR TEXT BE UPPER CASE.

To Random Case

ChanGe ALl cHaRactERs CASE RanDoMly

You CAN MAKE your TExt look rEaLlY CraZy!

To Title Case

Capitalize movie/book/game titles

Capitalize every word, except when the word is 'a an the and but for nor or of with to of in on de le la au'.

Capitalize First Letter

Capitalize 1st letter of each item

Clean

Clean Operations

Clean-up your text.

Often your text will need to have white space, non-alphanumeric characters, duplicates, or other debris removed from it.

Remove Non-Alphanumeric

Remove Non-Alphanumeric

Remove text such as ,.:;'<>?$#@!*

If your text contains symbols that are not A-Z, 0-9, or space, it won't after you use this.

Remove Duplicates

Remove Duplicates

If your list is large, you may have duplicate entries that you didn't know about. This will remove them.

Remove All Linebreaks

Remove linebreaks from text

When you copy text from some sources, line-breaks from the original source will cause the text to look wrong in different width presentations.

This tool will go through your text, removing all line-breaks that it finds.

Convet to Paragraphs

Remove Linebreaks, Preserve Paragraphs

When you copy text from some sources, line-breaks from the original source will cause the text to look wrong in different width presentations.

This tool will remove those linebreaks, but still preserve the paragraphs boundaries.

Trim Spaces

Remove Spaces from ends of your items

Often, you'll end up with spaces in front of and behind your list items. This will clean that up, making the first character and last character of each item a non-space.

Remove Whitespace

Remove extra blank lines, tabs, and spaces

If you're cleaning up text, you'll often end up with embedded spaces, tabs, and extra line beaks. This will remove those.

Prune Items

Deletes Text at beginning or end of items

Define a character or group of characters that will be your 'trigger text'

This 'trigger text' will tell where we want the pruning operation to terminate.

The 'trigger text' will also be deleted.

You can prune on the beginning of your items, or on the end of your items.

Replace

Text Replace

Do a 'Search and Replace' across your entire document.

If you only want to replace whole words, make sure you put a space before and after your search text, or you'll end up replacing the text if it appears inside words as well.

For example, if you replace 'is' with 'at', then you'll change 'this' to 'that', unless you put a space before and after the 'is'.

• Random •

Shuffle into Random Order

This sort will randomly shuffle your list.

↓ Length ↓

Sort By Item Length

• Transpose List •

Rows to Columns

Remember that you can use the TAB key to add tabs to your list.

Transpose understands semicolons, commas, tabs, hyphens, and spaces between elements in the rows you are transposing.

Tabs, of course, generate the prettiest output, but only if your item length is less than a tab width.

↓ A → Z ↓

Typical List Alphabetizing

↓ A → Z Names ↓

Name Sort

This sort is able to handle the guest list for your next party.

It also can clean up that phone list of yours, since numbers are ignored, it will just concentrate on alphabetizing the names.

Alphabetizes by last name. If you have "and guest" or "and Bill Clinton" the main guest who is before the "and" will be used for the sort.

↓ A → Z Addresses ↓

Address List Sort

Alphabetizes by last name listed on 1st line of address.

If you have "and guest" or "and family" on that line, the main guest who is before the "and" will be used for the sort.

You must have a blank line between your addresses!

↓ A → Z Titles ↓

Book or Movie Titles

Ignores A, An, The, La, Le, L', Il

↓ A → Z Email ↓

Email Addresses

Alphabetizes by domain name to group addresses from same company together.

↓ A → Z HREF ↓

HREF Tags

This is for web masters.

If you have a list of links that you want to alphabetize, you want them alphabetized by what user sees, not what the URL is.

↓ A→Z Ignore 1st ↓

Ignore 1st Word

Alphabetizes, beginning with second word.

Let's say you have a bunch of street addresses. You care mostly about the street name, not the house number.

↓ 0 → 99 ↓

Numerical Sort

This sort searches through the item text, looking for a number, anywhere within it.

It then parses that number for K, M, G, and m modifiers if they exist. [ K (Kilo) - M (Mega) - G (Giga) - m (milli) ]

Finally, it sorts your list numerically

↓ Day of Week ↓

Sort by Day

This will sort your list by the days of the week that appear within your list items.

It will sort in the following order, Monday, Tuesday, ... Saturday, Sunday.

↓ Month ↓

Sort by Month

This will sort your list by the months of the year that appear within your list items.

It will sort in the following order, January, Februay, ... November, December.

← Mirror Items ←

Mirror Each Item

This will spell your items backwards.

← Reverse Items ←

Reverse Each Item

This will swap the order of your item words.

↑ Reverse List ↑

Reverse your List

This will reverse the order of your list.

Use this when you want to reverse your previous alphabetical sort, numeric sort, etc.

Item Separators

Separators between List Items

You need to tell us how your data is formatted, for us to sort it properly.

You do that by selecting the appropriate separator under the "Items are Separated By" heading.

You can also change the way your data is formatted by selecting a new separator under the "I Want Items Separated By" heading.

Item Labels

Label Each Item

You can add text to the beginning or the end of each item on your list.