My comments would be along the lines of Laurent_R's above.

... i have a phone list in a text file ...

What is the format of data in this file? Just a few lines, please, not 10,000. Also, please use  <c> ... </c> or  <code> ... </code> tags around code, data and input/output. Please see Markup in the Monastery and Writeup Formatting Tips.

... i am wanting a script to sort them like this ...

Also, how do you want your output sorted? By telephone number, ascending (this is suggested by your output example in the OP)? Otherwise? (Update: I just took another look at the OP and must admit I can't see what the sort order even might be.)

Also, as ww has pointed out above, doing some research and writing some code, even incomplete, will show a desire to learn and will encourage monkish support.

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In reply to Re: total noob trying to format a phone list by AnomalousMonk
in thread trying to format a list by sonikd

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