Sort in vim while ignoring articles ('A' and 'The')

Question

I have a vim file that looks like the following:

ABBA
Duran Duran
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Styx

Using vim's sort command results in this output:

ABBA
Duran Duran
Styx
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones

What I want to do is to ignore articles like 'A' and 'The' when sorting. So expected output would be like this

ABBA
The Beatles
Duran Duran
The Rolling Stones
Styx

Answer 1

look at :help :sort

When /{pattern}/ is specified and there is no [r] flag the text matched with {pattern} is skipped, so that you sort on what comes after the match. Instead of the slash any non-letter can be used.

:sort /^\(A \|The \)*/

This make sort of:

(ABBA)
The (Beatles)
(Duran Duran)
The (Rolling Stones)
(Styx)