Hi, I am trying to create a way to sort strings alphabetically. I came up with something that works for the first letter only. Is there a way to loop this precedure in order to take the other letters into account? This exercise if actually more of a pretext as I’m trying to learn how to make looping functions. Thanks for your time.
I am not a coder but I am guessing you would need to use forloop. Quick search and I found this website. It might help.
I know you are trying to learn but I think the OOTB sort node does what you are looking for.
Thank you Steven I appreciate it
Hi mostafa,
I also agree python is the best way to solve this. Stay tune will post solution in about 7 hours from now.
Can’t wait! 
Hi Mostafa,
I believe this is possibly the most convoluted example you could have chosen for something as straightforward as looping 
It’s true that DesignScript is not as user friendly as python but for many cases it’s just as powerful. Here’s a detailed breakdown of one possible solution to the problem:
And if you want to stick with DesignScript to sort the characters, here’s how (Dimitar’s solution doesn’t appear to sort the characters):
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I thought the idea was to sort the list of strings and not the characters inside the strings?
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Thanks a lot for taking the time to help me figure this one out.
The exercise seems indeed pointless because there is already a function for that. But it could get trickier if, for exembple, we tried to sort following something that is not as standard as the alphabet.
I will explore the imperative blocks .
Thanks again!
Good evening
Today I am stuck in this excercie because I have to sort this list of wall alphabetically
The dynamo list.sort does not and I’m learning python and I’d like to get your help
thank you in advance.
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Hi @amiche_fares ,
you can do this like this:
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thank you very much ,
Would you know how to do the same with python?
Thank you for your answer