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LESSON 619 OF 671 · PROJECTS: COMMAND-LINE TOOLS

CLI Tool: sort v1 — Ascending Alphabetical Sort

Practice

Build a tiny version of the Unix sort command. Given a list of lines, return them sorted in ascending order by character code (like LC_ALL=C sort: uppercase letters come before lowercase ones, "Zebra" before "apple", and an empty line comes first), joined by newline characters (\n). Duplicates are all kept. If the list is empty, return the empty string.

Function signature:

sortLines(lines)

Example:

Input: lines = ["banana", "apple", "cherry"]

Output: "apple\nbanana\ncherry"

When printed:
apple
banana
cherry

JavaScript's Array.prototype.sort mutates the array in place. To avoid touching the input, copy first with [...lines], then sort.

The full solution:
class Solution {
    sortLines(lines) {
        const sortedLines = [...lines].sort();
        return sortedLines.join("\n");
    }
}

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