# Help needed with Objects and Lists

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**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [April 30, 2024, 7:27am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-needed-with-objects-and-lists/2976842 "2024-04-30T07:27:06Z")\
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> [@damienc](#):
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> Is it possible to sort TempList3 by the first field of the object (ExampleNumber)?

Yes but it’s going to be really complicated programming because of the objects. Again, I’d go with Airtable for something like that. Personally if I was headed that way and didn’t want to use Airtable, I would switch to using a text string instead. For example, if your values were 67 and Tiger, you would create a list item by joining them with a separator such as “#”. So the value of a single list item would be “67#Tiger”. The separator should be a character that will never be part of a possible ExampleText value. Then you can sort the list using the built-in sort block! When you need to get each separate value (ExampleNumber and ExampleText), use the text substring block and other text blocks to find the separator (“#”) and determine which substrings you need for each value.  
  
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