copying a chunk of text from within a file ?

[filn]

how would one go about copying a section of html out of a larger html file ?
like say i had an html table and i wanted to get a certain section of it, can that be done ?

[filn]

or like copy all the text between two points in a file, like say something like:

(header stuff)

######### copy ###########

blahblahabalha
hdsghdkad
dhajdgakgddgsayd
dgsk
ggiudsag

end copy

(more file stuff)

[dalecosp]

Ah, right click, drag, select, pick "copy" from context menu---😉

No, in seriousness, what do you mean by "copy?"

PHP is full of functions to manipulate strings, read files, etc.

For example, make a file ($filename) like this...

line one is this
line two is that

Read it with 'fread()':

$stuff=fread($filename, 1000);

Split it up with strtok(), perhaps:

$this=strtok($stuff, "\n");

There are lots of ways to do this type of thing. Head on over to the manual at php.net and check 'em out...!

🙂

[filn]

like ive got a table with dates and i want every line with date XXXXXX to be "copied" into a separate file.

[Duey]

better idea. i will use "<!--copy-->" for where copying starts and "<!--endcopy-->" for where copying ends k?

$html = file("somefile.html");
$copy = explode("<!--copy-->", $html);
$endcopy = explode("<!--endcopy-->", $copy);
$text = "$copy[1]" . "$endcopy[0]";
echo "$text"; //prints the copyed text to browser

[filn]

i keep getting a parse error on:

$copy = explode("<!--copy-->", $html);

[dalecosp]

Probably a bad choice of seperators, try assigning a $var to use in the "explode" or 'escape' the "1" and possibly the "--". (I'd probably just use the var). Code looks fine otherwise, Duey probably just wrote it off the top of his head....

Originally coded by Duey

$sep = "<!--copy-->";
$sep_b = "<!--endcopy-->";
$html = file("somefile.html");
$copy = explode($sep, $html);
$endcopy = explode($sep_b, $copy);
$text = "$copy[1]" . "$endcopy[0]";
echo "$text"; //prints the copyed text to browser

😉