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Shuffle lines

Lines

What to do

Result

alpha
bravo
charlie
delta
echo

30 → 30 characters · 5 lines

Transformed in your browser · nothing is uploaded

Local · deterministic here, seeded shuffle elsewhere

Reorders a list — sorted, reversed or de-duplicated. For a genuinely random shuffle with a reproducible seed, the random order generator is the better tool.

How to use the shuffle lines

1 Paste your text into the first box.

2 Choose what you want done to it.

3 Copy the result, or save it as a text file.

Sorting and reversing are deterministic and belong here; a random shuffle needs a random source and, more usefully, a seed so the result can be reproduced when somebody disputes it. That is what the random order generator provides. The de-duplication here keeps the first occurrence, so the surviving order matches the original — which matters when the list is already in a meaningful sequence and you only want the repeats gone.

Questions

Where is the random shuffle? −

On the random order generator, which uses a cryptographic source and takes a seed so a draw can be reproduced.

Which duplicate is kept? +

Is the sort case-sensitive? +

How do I sort numbers? +

Is my list uploaded? +

Sources

MDN — working with strings

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