On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:52 -0500, Wolf wrote:
> > >>> 1. Some Text here
> > >>> 2. Another Line of Text
> > >>> 3. Yet another line of text
> > >>> 340. All the way to number 340
> > >>>
> > >>> And I want to remove the Number, period, and blank space at the
> > >> begining
> > >>> of each line.  How can I accomplish this?
> > >>>
> > >>> Opening the file to modify it is easy, I'm just lost at how to
> > > remove
> > >>> the text.:
> > >>>
> > >>> <?php
> > >>> $filename = "results.txt";
> > >>>
> > >>> $fp = fopen($filename, "r") or die ("Couldn't open $filename");
> > >>> if ($fp)
> > >>> {
> > >>> while (!feof($fp))
> > >>>         {
> > >>>         $thedata = fgets($fp);
> > >>>         //Do something to remove the "1. "
> > >>>         //print the modified line and \n
> > >>>         }
> > >>> fclose($fp);
> > >>> }
> > >>> ?>
> > >>>
> > >> I'd go with a regular expression any day for something like this.
>  *groan*
> 
> <?php 
>  $filename = "results.txt"; 
> 
>  $fp = fopen($filename, "r") or die ("Couldn't open $filename"); 
>  if ($fp) 
>  { 
>   while (!feof($fp)) 
>   { 
>    $thedata = fgets($fp); 
>    //Do something to remove the "1. " 
>    $findme=" ";
>    $pos=strpos($thedata,$findme);
>    $thedata_fixed=trim(substr($thedata,$findme));
>     //print the modified line and \n 
>    echo $thedata_fixed."\n";
>   } 
>   fclose($fp); 
>  } 
> ?> 
> 
> See, no regex needed and no matter the size of the '######. ' it will always 
> find the first " " and then chop it from there to the end, then you trim it 
> up and you get the text.
> 
> Wolf
> 
Thats a lot of code when a couple of lines and a regex will do ;)


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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