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page_title: "sort - Functions - Configuration Language"
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  The sort function takes a list of strings and returns a new list with those
  strings sorted lexicographically.
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# `sort` Function

-> **Note:** This page is about Terraform 0.12 and later. For Terraform 0.11 and
earlier, see
[0.11 Configuration Language: Interpolation Syntax](../../configuration-0-11/interpolation.html).

`sort` takes a list of strings and returns a new list with those strings
sorted lexicographically.

The sort is in terms of Unicode codepoints, with higher codepoints appearing
after lower ones in the result.

## Examples

```
> sort(["e", "d", "a", "x"])
[
  "a",
  "d",
  "e",
  "x",
]
```