alphabetical-sort

Ok, here is my problem. A teacher has to randomly select a student (from the students she has) to earn a special bonus in the final score and in order to do that she puts N pieces of paper numbered from 1 to N in a bag and randomly select a number K; the award-winning student was the K-th student in the student list. The problem is that the teacher does not know which number corresponds to which student because she lost the paper that contained this information. What she knows: the names of all students, and that, their numbers, from 1 to N, are assigned according to the alphabetical order. So

I often prepend ' _ ' to the item I want in first position. Is there some sort of magical character I could use to put an item at the end of the list? Something more elegant than "z_item". From _custom folder1 _custom folder2 Inbox Sent box Spam folder To Inbox Sent box Spam folder [?]custom folder1 [?]custom folder2 Yeah, it's COT-ish. Doug The Special lead-in Character that will put your folder at the end of the list without having to resort to using the "z" combo: U+E83A: Private Use. In fact, I believe any of the Private Use characters will work. () Just copy and paste the character

I have managed to order all the data alphabetically but what I can't do is group it by first letter and also display the first letter like below: A apple arrow B band blur and so on... Here is my code for displaying the ordered data. --- layout: default --- {% capture thelistings %} {% for listing in site.data.terminology %} <li>{{ listing.term }}: {{ listing.definition }}</li> {% endfor %} {% endcapture %} {% assign allsortedlistings = thelistings | split:" " | sort %} <ul> {% for allterms in allsortedlistings %} {{ allterms }} {% endfor %} </ul> This outputs: again: now it is here aunt: