Bracket-Insensitive Sorter
Why does sorting lists with brackets or parentheses always feel like solving a puzzle? If you've ever spent hours manually reordering items like "[Apple] Banana (Cherry)" only to realize the brackets are messing with your sorting logic, this tool is your new best friend. The Bracket-Insensitive Sorter takes your messy list, ignores all those pesky brackets and parentheses, and sorts the items alphabetically—fast and hassle-free. Whether you're organizing a grocery list, cataloging products, or cleaning up data, this tool makes it feel like magic. Say goodbye to frustration and hello to a perfectly sorted list in seconds!
This tool sorts your list alphabetically while ignoring text in brackets. Example: [Apple] Banana (Cherry) → Banana [Apple] (Cherry).
How It Works
The Bracket-Insensitive Sorter uses a simple yet powerful logic to sort your list:
- It reads your list line by line, ignoring any text inside brackets
[...]or parentheses(...). - It compares the remaining text alphabetically, just like a dictionary.
- Finally, it rearranges your list while preserving the original brackets and parentheses.
For example, if you input:
[Apple] Banana (Cherry) Date
The tool will sort it as:
Banana [Apple] Date (Cherry)
Example Outputs
| Input | Sorted Output |
|---|---|
| [Apple] Banana | Banana [Apple] |
| (Cherry) Date | Date (Cherry) |
| [Zebra] Apple | Apple [Zebra] |
| (Grape) Fig | Fig (Grape) |
| [Orange] Lemon | Lemon [Orange] |
10 Ways to Use the Bracket-Insensitive Sorter
- Organizing grocery lists with optional items in brackets.
- Sorting product catalogs with variant names in parentheses.
- Cleaning up messy data exports from spreadsheets.
- Reordering to-do lists with priority levels in brackets.
- Sorting bibliographies with citations in parentheses.
- Managing inventory lists with product codes in brackets.
- Organizing event schedules with optional sessions in parentheses.
- Sorting playlists with song metadata in brackets.
- Reordering research notes with annotations in parentheses.
- Cleaning up database entries with additional info in brackets.