Copy text form a file into another????

[Anon]

I'm new to PHP, but studying.

I trying to make a script that can search and find a textblock i a file, copy that textblock and paste it inside a another file.

Can someone help me with this please?

Pre thanks!

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How are you going to finc the textblock? will you have a start and ending for the block, will you simply look for a matching block of text?

[Anon]

I have to search for this textstring:

<TD CLASS="h">
<STRONG>10 SISTE NYHETER</STRONG></TD>
</TR></TABLE>

Everything between that and the following text is to be copied:

<BR></TD></TR></TABLE>
<TABLE WIDTH="620" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0">

The tags here are generated by a script and are unik for this file.

[Anon]

Are you taking content from another site? 🙂

You could use regular expressions (ereg in the manual), and that will allow you to continue on your nefarious mission... 😉

[Anon]

No, I'm not taking anything from anothers site, I'm taking something from my company's site. But good thinking anyway!

The codeblock I want is on my company's official site, telling aboat the "The 10 last news". I wan't that 10 last News to automaticly apear on my company's intranet.

So I'm not going to steal anything.

(Sorry aboat my english, I'm Norwegian)

[Anon]

It's a quite simple thing to do:

Copy the portion of the text before the text that you want, and call it $start. Do the same with the text right after it, and call it $end.

Then, get the whole block, and call it $mess 🙂

$res=preg_match("|$start(.*)$end|s", $mess, $regs);

Then $regs[1] will be the text between the two of 'em.

Dave