First 5 lines

[robertaccettura]

I have the following:

for($i=0; $i<sizeof($sourcenews); $i++){
preg_match("/<a class=y .*<\/a>/i", $sourcenews[$i], $result);
if(!$result[0])
continue;
$link = trim($result[0]);
clean($link);

how can I get the first 5 lines of $link?

[deception54]

Could you provide more explanations about your goal?

I see some mistakes in the code.

1. There seem to have syntax errors in the first argument of preg_replace, but I guess this is not why you post.

2. Why use a for loop? The third argument of preg_replace could be an array I think.

3. Where does your for loop ends? I cant see the closing bracket

[MrAlaska]

Originally posted by robertaccettura
how can I get the first 5 lines of $link?

If, by that, you mean you want the first five matches from $link, I would do it something like this...

<?php
$i=0;
foreach($sourcenews as $val){
	if(preg_match("/<a class=y(.*)<\/a>/i", $val, $result)){
		$link[] = trim($result[1]);
		//clean($link);
		if(++$i==5) break;
	}
}
foreach($link as $val){
	echo $val."<br>";
}
?>

[NiXXeD]

Another small thing you could do (while everyone's ripping your code apart) is not put a function here:

for($i=0; $i<sizeof($sourcenews); $i++){ 

instead, do something like this - because it does make a performance difference

$sizeofsourcenews = sizeof($sourcenews);
for($i=0; $i<$sizeofsourcenews; $i++){ 

A lot of people never think about it, but that function is called on every loop to make sure i < that size... in a big situation, it would make a big difference.