Re: removing text from a string

> >>> 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