On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 08:04 -0600, Adam Williams wrote:
> I have a file that looks like:
>
> 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($fp);
> }
> ?>
>
I'd go with a regular expression any day for something like this.
Something like:
"/$[0-9]{1,3}\.\ .*^/g"
should do what you need. Note the space before the last period.
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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