Hello, and welcome back! Our journey today takes us into the sorting universe in Kotlin. We will learn about and use two built-in sorting functions: sort() and sorted(). These ready-to-use tools in Kotlin significantly simplify the task of sorting. Let's get started!

Sorting refers to arranging data in a specific order, which enhances the efficiency of search or merge operations on data. In real life, we sort books alphabetically or clothes by size. Similar concepts are applicable in programming, where sorting large lists of data for more effective analysis is a frequent practice.

Kotlin offers built-in sorting methods sort() for in-place sorting of mutable collections and sorted() to return a new sorted list from a collection. Here's a demonstration of how we use these methods:

Sorting with Kotlin's sort() and sorted() functions makes sorting collections easy. Let's see it in action!

Sorting Arrays In-Place