Re: Sorting a large text string alphabetically

* Thus wrote Andre Dubuc: > I'm trying to sort alphabetically a large text string filled with first and > last names separated by ", " That would seem to be a simple task, but > sort($txt) does not seem to work even when $txt is an array. > > The code : > > <?php > > $OK= "Joe Blow, Sam Hill, Henry Forget, etc, etc"; > > $_SESSION['txt'] = "$OK"; > session_write_close(); Are you really wanting to do this? this is a lot of overhead. > $txt = $_SESSION['txt']; > > > $names = explode(", ", $txt); > foreach($names as $key => $names){ > > sort($names); //line 235 > reset($names); // line 236 > while (list($key, $val) = each($names)) { //line 237 > } > } > > $sorted = implode(", ", $names); > return($sorted); Now for the real issue... I'm not sure what all the foreach and while loops are for but to simply sort your list you need two lines: $sorted = explode(", ", $txt); // actually is $tosort sort($sorted); // but its sorted now. Curt -- First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No, sir. Our model is the trapezoid!