Sort Lines of Text in Google Sheets & Excel — =VERVE("linesorter", "["banana","apple","cherry"]")

What this pulls

Alphabetize text by the row. =VERVE("linesorter", A2) sorts lines ascending or descending down a column — Google Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

linesorter.xlsxsample data

B2fx=VERVE("linesorter", A2, "lineCount")

Lines

Line Count

Order

Case Sensitive

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,An apple a day keeps the doctor away,banana,Cherry blossoms bloom in spring,date

asc

FALSE

click any cell to see its formula1 credit / cell

Ways to use it

Clean a column of text

Fill =VERVE("linesorter", "["banana","apple","cherry"]") beside messy text and get the normalized, analyzed, or translated version back — data cleaning without leaving the grid.

Analyze at scale

Score or classify a whole column of responses, reviews, or messages in one fill instead of one-by-one.

Compose with other formulas

Nest Sort Lines of Text's output inside your existing SUM, IF, or CONCAT logic like any other cell value.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("linesorter", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,An apple a day keeps the doctor away,banana,Cherry blossoms bloom in spring,date")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("linesorter", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,An apple a day keeps the doctor away,banana,Cherry blossoms bloom in spring,date")

Optional inputs

Tune the result by adding name=value before the field argument — in any order. Leave one out and its default applies.

order
Sort order
=VERVE("linesorter", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,An apple a day keeps the doctor away,banana,Cherry blossoms bloom in spring,date", "order", "asc")
caseSensitive
Enable case-sensitive sorting
=VERVE("linesorter", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,An apple a day keeps the doctor away,banana,Cherry blossoms bloom in spring,date", "caseSensitive", "false")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Data.sorted
=VERVE("linesorter", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,An apple a day keeps the doctor away,banana,Cherry blossoms bloom in spring,date", "field", "data.sorted")
Data.line Count
=VERVE("linesorter", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,An apple a day keeps the doctor away,banana,Cherry blossoms bloom in spring,date", "field", "data.lineCount")
Data.order
=VERVE("linesorter", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,An apple a day keeps the doctor away,banana,Cherry blossoms bloom in spring,date", "field", "data.order")

Sort Lines of Text, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Sort Lines of Text into a spreadsheet?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in with your key, and type =VERVE("linesorter", "["banana","apple","cherry"]") into any cell. The same function works in Google Sheets and Excel — no scripts, no API wiring.

How many credits does each Sort Lines of Text cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. Filling a column of ten rows costs ten times that; a cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a static sheet doesn't keep charging.

Can I fill a whole column at once?

Yes. Reference a range instead of a single cell — e.g. point Sort Lines of Text at A2:A50 — and it returns a value for every row in one call, or just drag =VERVE("linesorter", "["banana","apple","cherry"]") down like any spreadsheet function.

Does Sort Lines of Text work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes. It's the same =VERVE() function with the same arguments and the same key in both — build a sheet in one and it behaves identically in the other.

How current is the data?

Sort Lines of Text is served live from APIVerve's production data engine, and cells recalculate on the refresh cadence you choose — every open, hourly, or every 30 minutes.

Where does the data come from, and what shows on my bill?

VerveSheets runs on APIVerve, our production data engine; Sort Lines of Text is one of 300+ sources on the same key. Invoices and card statements show APIVERVE.

Sort Lines of Text

Clean a column of text

Analyze at scale

Compose with other formulas

Sort Lines of Text, answered

Put Sort Lines of Text in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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