Unless I'm missing something, why put it in an array. Why not just just 
select the data from the data base that matches your search_name and 
list it. Something like:

SELECT e_mail, name FROM e_mail_file
WHERE name = '$search_name'
ORDER by name

HTH.
Dan.


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>  After I read this file into an array (small sample of file below) I need to sorted 
>it by the name at
>  the end of each line and then echo out only the ones that the name
>  equals the name in a search variable.
> 
>  Also could somebody recommend a PHP book that covers a lot of info on
>  working with text files. It seams to be very little info in any of the
>  boos I have now. It is sort of skipped over a lot
> 
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