a little problem again

virva

How should I do this: I want to read some specific lines from the file. This reads all of the text in file and works ok:

$file = fopen ("http://www.mol.fi/Tietoa/Ammatti/00/3/0/1/30110.html", "r");

while (!feof ($file)) {
$teksti = fgets($file, 255);
echo $teksti;
}
fclose ($file);

But when I try to read only some of the text, this doesn't work. What's wrong?

$file = fopen ("http://www.mol.fi/Tietoa/Ammatti/00/3/0/1/30110.html", "r");

while (!feof ($file)) {
$teksti = fgets($file, 255);

    //there are links inside the page
    $start = '<A NAME="työtehtävät">'; 
    $end = '<A NAME="kelpoisuusehdot">'; 

    $start_position = strpos($teksti, $start); 
    $end_position = strpos($teksti, $end)+strlen($end); 
    $length = $end_position-$start_position; 
    $teksti = substr($teksti, $start_position, $length); 

    echo $teksti;

}
fclose ($file);

Thanks if you can help me.

wizkid

Hi,

you could use the function [FONT=courier new]file()[/FONT], because this function returns the file in an array. Each element of the array corresponds to a line in the file, with the newline still attached.

wizkid