# How to sort words alphabetically from a String?

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**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [July 17, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-sort-words-alphabetically-from-a-string/12767 "2019-07-17T21:47:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 10:49am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-sort-words-alphabetically-from-a-string/12767/6 "2019-07-18T10:49:48Z")

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> [@lolonulu](#):
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> , but still the order of the _word_ is messy in _x_,

There aren’t any variables named exactly _word_ nor _x_ in your posted code!

Also, you’re reassigning field _lines_ w/ another String[] array inside **draw()**:  
`lines = split(message, " ");`

Obviously after that, the previously **sort()** String[] array from **setup()** is gone!

However, all of this is already beyond what you had specifically requested in this topic here.

I believe this is all being debated in your previous topic below:

> [@How to break line using loadspring()?](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-break-line-using-loadspring/12668/):
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> Hello, I’d like to split my text into Strings and to move the same Strings to new coordinates. First when I split the text I don’t manage to insert a line break, how should I proceed? Thanks a lot in advance for your help. Best, L PFont f; String alphabet="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ2019,.;:!?\n "; String wordsList="FOLLY,WHAT,FOR,TO,IS,THE,WORD,ALL,GIVEN,IS,FROM,ALL,THAT,SEEING,THIS,SEE,GLIMPSE,NEED,SEEM,WHERE,OVER,AWAY,AFAR,AFAINT"; String []lines; String message; int posX = 20; int posY =…

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