how to read in PART of an include file?

dgr

sorry for the dupe, i put this in the wrong forum 🙁

i want to write a script that inputs the bookmark output that can get from mozilla and:

converts it into valid html 4.01 (ads html, head, body tags, etc)
style sheets it.

The problem is, the mozilla output begins as follows. my ph will look a bit like this:

-begin html
-begin stylesheet
-include bookmark file EXCEPT the first few lines.
output html document end (/body, /html)

question is, how exactly do i do it? regular expressions?

dgr

    <!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
    <!-- This is an automatically generated file.
    It will be read and overwritten.
    Do Not Edit! -->
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>
    <H1>Bookmarks</H1>

<DL><p>
    <DT><H3 LAST_MODIFIED="1074010178" PERSONAL_TOOLBAR_FOLDER="true" ID="NC:PersonalToolbarFolder">Personal Toolbar Folder</H3>
    <DL><p>
    </DL><p>
    <HR>
    <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1065027226" LAST_MODIFIED="1074004355" ID="NC:BookmarksRoot#$f9855d06">banking</H3>
    <DL><p>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.hsbc.co.uk/ebank/default.htm" ADD_DATE="1065027226">HSBC Internet Banking Log on</A>
    </DL><p>
    <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1074003541" LAST_MODIFIED="1074003546" ID="NC:BookmarksRoot#$ec837d36">benchmarking</H3>
    <DL><p>
        <DT><A HREF="http://foru

Chubber

You want to do a read() on it, skip the first couple of lines (if always the first 4 lines) and use the resulting string heap.

Or, read in the whole thing, then regexp out the offending bits.

Chubber

shamil

Please can soemone help with this..
i want to retrieve thes adresses and store it in a database...but my problem is how to take only part of the text...to insert into the database

for example all the folders goes in the table folder and the bookmark in a table file...so as to be able to print it back afterwards....

Thanx for your help