Re: removing text from a string

Ashley Sheridan wrote: > 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 > > > Yep, with a regex, it's real easy (untested code): <?php $fileData = file_get_contents("text,txt"); $newFileData = preg_replace('/^\d+?\.\s?(.*$)/m','/$1/', $fileData); file_put_contents("newfile.txt", $newFileData); ?> Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com