Sort a list alphabetically

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I have the following class   class Detail       public Detail                  details   new List lt string gt               public IList lt string gt  Details   get   return  details          private readonly List lt string gt   details      Currently I sort the class randomly using the following   void ShuffleGenericList lt T gt  IList lt T gt  list          generate a Random instance     var rnd   new Random          get the count of items in the list     var i   list Count          do we have a reference type or a value type     T val   default T          we will loop through the list backwards     while  i  gt   1                  decrement our counter         i--            grab the next random item from the list         var nextIndex   rnd Next i  list Count             val   list nextIndex             start swapping values         list nextIndex    list i           list i    val            What I would like to do is to sort the contents of details in alphabetic order   So for example if the contents look like this    0  a  1  d  2  b   I want to be able to run this method and have them sorted into    0  a  1  b  2  d   Does anyone know of a simple way to do this  Note that the lists usually have less than ten entries in them  Can I do this with LINQ  Sorry but I am not very familiar with LINQ I have just heard a suggestion that I could use that

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What is wrong with List lt T gt  Sort    https   docs microsoft com en-us dotnet api system collections generic list-1 sort overloads

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You should be able to use OrderBy in LINQ     var sortedItems   myList OrderBy s   gt  s

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Another way   details Sort  s1  s2    gt  s1 CompareTo s2

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There are two ways  Without LINQ  yourList Sort    With LINQ  yourList OrderBy x   gt  x  ToList   You will find more information in  https   www dotnetperls com sort

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You can sort a list in-place just by calling List lt T gt  Sort  list Sort     That will use the natural ordering of elements  which is fine in your case  EDIT  Note that in your code  you d need  details Sort     as the Sort method is only defined in List lt T gt   not IList lt T gt   If you need to sort it from the outside where you don t have access to it as a List lt T gt   you shouldn t cast it as the List lt T gt  part is an implementation detail  you ll need to do a bit more work  I don t know of any IList lt T gt -based in-place sorts in  NET  which is slightly odd now I come to think of it  IList lt T gt  provides everything you d need  so it could be written as an extension method  There are lots of quicksort implementations around if you want to use one of those  If you don t care about a bit of inefficiency  you could always use  public void Sort lt T gt  IList lt T gt  list        List lt T gt  tmp   new List lt T gt  list       tmp Sort        for  int i   0  i  lt  tmp Count  i                  list i    tmp i            In other words  copy  sort in place  then copy the sorted list back   You can use LINQ to create a new list which contains the original values but sorted  var sortedList   list OrderBy x   gt  x  ToList     It depends which behaviour you want  Note that your shuffle method isn t really ideal   Creating a new Random within the method runs into some of the problems shown here You can declare val inside the loop - you re not using that default value It s more idiomatic to use the Count property when you know you re working with an IList lt T gt  To my mind  a for loop is simpler to understand than traversing the list backwards with a while loop  There are other implementations of shuffling with Fisher-Yates on Stack Overflow - search and you ll find one pretty quickly

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