need help with asort(); - what am I doing wrong?

[marcnyc]

Hello, I am trying to sort an array in alphabetical order but I can't seem to do it. I have:

$lines = explode(" ",$content);
       asort ($lines);
       reset ($lines);
	for($l=0;$l<count($lines);$l++) { 
	echo '<li>'.$lines[$l];
	}

But it keeps printing them in the original order... What am I doing wrong?

[jimson]

do u really know what the & nbsp; really mean?

$lines = explode(" ",$content);

// should change to
$lines = explode(" ",$content);

[marcnyc]

That wasn't my question ;-)

Yes I know what   means and I do have   in the array and they make for a good divider for the explode function... that's beside the point...

I know the above works for me because the output is perfect, now I am trying to order the output and that's where I need help.

[stolzyboy]

straight from www.php.net/sort

you don't need asort since you don't have an associative array

simply use sort()

<?php

$fruits = array ("lemon", "orange", "banana", "apple");
sort ($fruits);
reset ($fruits);
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($fruits)) {
    echo "fruits[".$key."] = ".$val."\n";
}

?>

and jimson, his & n b s p ; will work fine if he wants a space to seperate the array elements

[marcnyc]

Thanks, now THAT suggestion worked miracles.
Unfortunately I am a newbie so I don't know what an associative array is and I thought that the a in asort(); was there for array, not for associative...
Thanks a lot for clarifying.