how do i cut off the first couple lines of a file?

[acidbox]

I am including an XML file via fsockopen, and when the file displays, it shows the html header before it shows the XML. This is causing my parser to choke.

The included file looks like this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:03:12 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 255
Content-Type: text/xml
Cache-control: private

<xmltag1></xmltag1><xmltag2></xmltag2>

I want to remove all the text up to and including the blank line above the XML code. Does anyone know an easy way to do this?

[Weedpacket]

Read the whole response into a variable $xml.

Use strpos() to find the first blank line - in other words, a TCP end-of-line immediately followed by another TCP end-of-line: "\r\n\r\n". That indicates the end of the header.

With the position known, you can use substr() to chop off everything up to it, and keep the rest.

Alternative: when you're reading the response, don't bother to record any of it until you see your first \r\n\r\n; onle record what you read after seeing the blank line.

[acidbox]

Thanks, that worked.