Delete first line ????

Dave_Faulkner

Hi all,

Hoping this is an easy one for someone out there. Ive had a fair look around and cant seem to locate anything to help me.

I have a file that gets called within a php script......

$file = "file.txt";
$fp = fopen($file,'r');
$info = fread($fp, filesize($file));
$info = nl2br($info);

From this you can see i add some breaks to each line......

After this is do a few other things to the text, but the last step i need to do is then remove the top line altogether.

Now....i would like to be able to use substr in the fashion that i know to just strip it all, but the problem is, this file.txt file changes all the time, so the first line is not always the same length.

If someone might be able to help me out with how to delete the first line entirely i would be very appreciative.

Kind Regards

Dave

yelvington

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.ltrim.php

Dave_Faulkner

Forgive my igorrance........

But doesnt ltrim deal with stripping whitepaces from around words?

I cant seem to find any information on this and how it can be used to delete and entire first line.

Thanx

Dave

yelvington

Oh, I thought you were dealing with a blank line. You need to delete everything from the beginning of the string to the end of the first line, right?

You can do that with a regular expression.

I might have done this differently -- kill that first line before you do anything else.

$foo = file('file.txt');
$foo[0] = ''; // nuke the first line
$info = nl2br(implode('',$foo));

Dave_Faulkner

Thanx yelvington,

I have implemented your suggested solution but get the error....

Warning: Bad arguments to implode() in /blah/blah/blah/atis.php on line 22

Any ideas what this might be relating to?

Thanx

Dave

Dave_Faulkner

yelvington,

Sorry about last post, I went over my structure and found it to be quite ineffeicient.

I have since sorted it out and it all works!.

Many thanx for your help.

Dave_Faulkner

Sorry yelvington,

One more question,

In your code -

$foo = file($file);
$foo[0] = ''; // nuke the first line
$info = nl2br(implode('',$foo));

I assume this gets rid of the first line.......

Can you let me know the syntax for removing then a number of different lines at once.?

I tried a few variants........eg

$foo = file($file);
$foo[0][1][2] = ''; // nuke the first line
$info = nl2br(implode('',$foo));

And so on, but no luck.

Many thanks