List Rotate

List rotation is a circular shift operation where elements are moved from one end of the list to the other. When you rotate right, items from the end move to the beginning. When you rotate left, items from the beginning move to the end.

The tool takes your list input, splits it by your chosen separator, then shifts elements circularly by the specified number of steps. The result is rejoined with the same separator.

You can use any character or string as a separator: commas, spaces, newlines, semicolons, pipes, tabs, or custom delimiters. The tool preserves your exact separator.

Yes. Negative steps rotate in the opposite direction. For example, rotating right by -2 is the same as rotating left by 2.

The tool automatically calculates the modulo, so rotating a 5-item list by 7 steps is equivalent to rotating by 2 steps (7 mod 5 = 2).

Absolutely. All processing happens locally in your browser. Your data never leaves your device and is never sent to any server.

Common uses include: rearranging playlist orders, rotating shift schedules, cycling through array indices in programming, creating circular buffers, and reordering data for analysis.

Yes, the tool handles duplicates correctly. Each item maintains its position relative to others during rotation.

Yes, empty items (from consecutive separators) are preserved in their rotated positions.

No hard limit, but very large lists (100,000+ items) may slow down your browser. The tool is optimized for typical use cases up to several thousand items.

Yes, simply use newline as your separator. The tool will rotate lines while preserving the line break format.

Rotation maintains the relative order of items, just shifted circularly. Sorting reorders by value, and shuffling randomizes. Rotation is predictable and reversible.