# sorttextEx proc

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

### Format
> `sorttextEx(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 sensitive to case. The case-insensitive version is sorttext().

> [!note]
> 
> Uppercase letters are lower in the alphabetical order than lowercase letters.

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

This outputs, "descending", since "B" comes before "a" in the alphabet.

> [!note]
> 
> This proc used to be named `sortText`, like `sorttext` but with a capital T. To avoid confusion it has been renamed, but old code will still compile.

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