Found this on the web, which I can work with, but does anyone have a complete non-filing article (English only) routine ready to go? Should be able to add "a " and "an " , and the function below should work right? kevin ===================== a quick function to point uksort() at, for sorting by key, but ignoring "the" from any keys that start with it: <?php function comp($a,$b) { //remove "the" (case-insensitive), and any non-word // characters from any string(s) that start with "the" $a = preg_replace('|^the\b\W*|i','',$a); $b = preg_replace('|^the\b\W*|i','',$b); if ($a == $b) { return 0; } return ($a > $b) ? 1 : -1; } ?>