# sorttext proc

Source: https://ref.dm-lang.org/proc/sorttext

### Format
> `sorttext(T1,T2,...)`

### Args
> Any number of text strings to sort.

### Returns
- 1 if text is ascending
- \-1 if text is descending
- 0 otherwise


This instruction is NOT sensitive to case. The case sensitive version is sorttextEx().

```dm /sorttext/
switch(sorttext("A","B"))
  if(1) world << "ascending"
  if(-1)world << "descending"
  if(0) world << "neither"
```

This outputs "ascending", since "A" comes before "B" in the alphabet.

### See also
- [\> operator](https://ref.dm-lang.org/operator/greater.md)
- [\< operator](https://ref.dm-lang.org/operator/less.md)
- [sorttextEx proc](https://ref.dm-lang.org/proc/sorttextEx.md)