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Dispose End Sub Hope this helps! Sort content ; writer. Write string. Join Environment. Kurubaran Kurubaran 8, 5 5 gold badges 37 37 silver badges 62 62 bronze badges. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses.

Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Related Hot Network Questions. The newly alphabetized text will appear in the box at the bottom of the page. If you're looking for more information on the topic of alphabetization then go read my article on how to alphabetize words.

For programmers interested in natural alphabetical sorting in javascript please check out Jim Palmer's blog entry on the Natural Sort Algorithm. Alphabetical Order. The Rules of Alphabetical Order If you're looking for more information on the topic of alphabetization then go read my article on how to alphabetize words. Active Oldest Votes. The complete code to solve this problem is going to be relatively long for a response here, but I can give you some directions: First create a class that holds information about each of your objects "Violin", "Guitar", etc.

Christian Christian 4, 5 5 gold badges 40 40 silver badges 69 69 bronze badges. Thanks Mark! Haven't been programming java for a long time!

Remember to try to use getters and setters for Java classes when possible. I'm currently at work, maybe I can post some code during the lunch break.

You have to read the file and store each element in a data structure. Then you just define the compare method and that's it. OscarRyz OscarRyz k gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

This would not quite work. You could then just put each item onto a common ArrayList as you create them and once you have finished reading the file you could use the following to sort it correctly: Collections.

You need to create a class that contains the properties: Manufacturer Type Color Price Then you read the data from the file and create an Object with the data, then add each object to an ArrayList where you can use the Collections. Tim Tim 88 4 4 bronze badges.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. How can I sort that file alphabetically? Hey, LR. But, hey, when have the Scripting Guys ever taken the easy way out? Oh, right: we were hoping everyone had forgotten about those times. There are other ways we could do this say, a bubble sort , but a disconnected recordset gives us more flexibility and is much easier to explain, especially for those of you who have some experience with database programming.

As an added bonus, that webcast will also show you how you can use a bubble sort to sort single-field data. Before we begin, we assume you have a text file that looks like this, with one computer name per line:. How can we read in these computer names, sort them, and then write the sorted list back to the text file?

Why, we can use a script that looks just like this one:.