sort-list

Alphabetically sort a list in ascending or descending order.

TIP: Numbers are treated as text (e.g. list order will be 1,12,2 instead of 1,2,12).

TIP: Use before or after unique-list-items adaptor to get a sorted list without duplicates.

Arguments

Inputs:

list: The list you want to sort.

reverse: Specifies whether to sort the list elements in descending order (i.e. Z-A). Defaults to false (defaults to sorting in ascending order). Change to 'true' if you want to sort in descending order (reverse-alphabetic order).

Output:

list: The sorted list, containing the same number of elements as the input list.

Examples

First example

https://data-flo.io/run?djNAAFdkVdRSdQkgqyWFfZ=data-flo.io

A simple example data-flo

The canvas of the above example data-flo

Second example

https://data-flo.io/run?djNAAFdkVdRSdQkgqyWFfZ/data-flo.io

Example data-flo showing various list manipulations

The canvas of the example data-flo

Possible use cases

• Create an alphabetic reference of names.