Order Text Lines by Character Length Sort lines of text by their character length, shortest or longest first.

A Sort Lines by Length is a text processing tool that rearranges lines of text based on the number of characters in each line, allowing users to sort by length rather than alphabetical order. Developers and data analysts use it to identify patterns and anomalies in large datasets, where sorting lines by character count helps reveal trends or outliers. One specific problem it solves is finding extremely long or short lines that may indicate errors or unusual data points.

The tool's ability to arrange lines shortest to longest or longest to shortest makes it a useful utility for text analysis tasks, such as examining line length distributions in source code files. What makes this implementation different is its interactive order selection feature, which enables users to switch between ascending and descending sort orders using a dropdown menu, with options labeled "Shortest first" and "Longest first". It also accurately counts all characters in each line, including spaces and special characters, ensuring that the sort by length operation produces correct results.

It supports sorting text by line length with precise control over the output, allowing users to inspect and compare the rearranged lines. For example, when sorting a list of strings using this line length sorter, it will correctly place shorter strings like "hello" before longer ones like "this is a test", demonstrating its effectiveness as an order by string length utility.