Hi,
I have a flat-file text db for members information in the following format:
$name|$email|$username|$password|$blank|$date

What I want to do is have a page in my script with links such as:
a, b, c, ...., y, z, 0-9, Other
Click a would list all records with usernames starting with a or A. 0-9 lists all usernames starting with 0 - 9 and other would list usernames starting with non alphanumeric characters.
I want the records to be listed alphanumerically by username on output.

How do I do this? I thought using query strings would be useful because it would allow searches like a-e wouldn't it?

Also, on output I want to list all the fields in the db, not just the username.

Any help would be welcome! Thanks a lot.
- Neil

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