Re: Re: sorting a list using regex

I completely don't understand what you're trying to say, but I have a sneaking suspicion the usort() functions might be helpful here. miguel On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Joshua E Minnie wrote: > I am trying to sort a list by their first character, my problem comes when > that first character is a number. When the character is a number I should > be able to display just the values which begin with a number. When the > value is a letter, I have no problem sorting this out. Here is the code > that I am using to determine that, any help will be greatly appreciated. > > <? > [snip] > while(!feof($fp)) { > $artist = fgetcsv($fp,1024,":"); > if(isset($_GET["sort"])) { > if(($_GET["sort"] != substr(strtoupper($artist[0]),0,1)) && > !($_GET["sort"] == "#" && ereg("^[0-9]",$artist[0]))) > continue; > } > } > [snip] > ?> > > Running PHP 4.2.1 on IIS 5 W2K > > Thanks > > -josh > > > > > >