How to alphabetically sort your List?

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Here's my code

using System.Collections.Generic;

public class DotHolder : MonoBehaviour {

 public List myList = new List();
 
 void Start () {
     foreach (Transform child in gameObject.transform)
     {
       myList.Add(child.gameObject);
     }
 }

}

now that myList contains a gameobjects of it's children, my question is,

how can i sort all the children alphabetically?

example current output:

myList[0] = "dog4" myList[1] = "dog5" myList[2] = "dog3" myList[3] = "dog1" myList[4] = "dog5"

example target output:

myList[0] = "dog1" myList[1] = "dog2" myList[2] = "dog3" myList[3] = "dog4" myList[4] = "dog5"

Answer 1

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Answer by Graham-Dunnett · Feb 22, 2013 at 02:01 PM

 // c# example
 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 
 public class sortlist : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public List<string> myList = new List<string>();
  
     void Start () {
         myList.Add("Tyrannosaurus");
         myList.Add("Amargasaurus");
         myList.Add("Mamenchisaurus");
         myList.Add("Deinonychus");
         myList.Add("Compsognathus");
 
         foreach(string dinosaur in myList)
         {
             Debug.Log(dinosaur);
         }
 
         myList.Sort();
 
         foreach(string dinosaur in myList)
         {
             Debug.Log(dinosaur);
         }
 
 
     }
 }

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ina · Mar 05, 2014 at 12:40 AM 0

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what about for non-string lists?

AlejandroBoss10 · Mar 08 at 04:59 AM 0

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Hey there, thanks for this, it's actually very helpful. I really appreciate it!

AbandonedCrypt AlejandroBoss10 · Mar 08 at 12:38 PM 0

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Super outdated, use Linq instead.

with using System.Linq; you get a bunch of useful extension methods for collections, such as the OrderBy and OrderByDescending methods.
Use them like this:

 List<GameObject> objSortedList = objListObject.OrderBy(o=>o.name).ToList();

Answer 2

Answer by nullstar · Feb 22, 2013 at 01:56 PM

Use the List.Sort() method

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