If i'm understanding you correctly, you have something like a flat file, and hopefully it is artist[tab]artist[tab] with the title being something like artist1title[tab]artist2title[tab], etc. If so, use explode. $artists = explode("\t", $stringofartists); $songs = explode("\t", $stringoftitles); $i = 0; foreach($artists as $key) { $information[$key] = $songs[$i]; $i++; } I hope this is kind of what you were looking for. [snip] Artist[tab]artist[tab]artist[tab] etc as a entry for "artists" [/snip] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php