Grabbing text from other file

[Anon]

I'd like to pick text between comment "Begin" and "End" from a textfile and use it.

How do i succed with that? Open textfile and just print it on screen is no problem, but i just cant figure out how to start echo()'ing when it 'senses' "Begin" and stop at my "End"-comment.

[brocky]

Try this...

$startlen = 7 //is length of "begin"
$endlen = 5 //is lenth of "end"

$file = substr ($file,$startlength,len($file)-$startlen-$endlen);

[brocky]

If End is not at the end of you file you can also use a stringfunction to know the position of "END". $file= the string you get out of your file of course...

[Anon]

I've figured this out now, it should at least explain what i want to do. But it doesn't work.

?php
$filename = "foo.txt";
$inline = file($filename);
$lines = count($inline);

for ($x = 0; $x < $lines; $x++) {
echo("$x<br>\n");
if ($inline[$x] == "begin") {
$data = 1;

} elseif ($inline[$x] == "end") {
	$data = 0;
}

if ($data == 1) {
	echo ("$inline[$x]<br>\n");
}

}
?>