Help me please with this Array

Pendragon

Array(
[0] => "Stuff"
[1] => "MoreStuff"
[2] => "Unique Stuff"
[3] => "Improtrant Stuff"
[4] => "Improtrant Stuff"
[5] => "Improtrant Stuff"
[6] => "Improtrant Stuff"
[7] => "Improtrant Stuff"

I am doing some weird, executable program with PHP. Using standard input ("php://STDIN", 'r') and I get an array passed to the program. The array is never exactly the same, but follows an improtant format. Sometimes it has 6 parts, sometimes 26 parts. I want to remove everything in the array before the unique stuff, and including the unique stuff. In this example, it is in array[2] but sometimes it is in a different posistion.

I want to remove all that junk and the Important stuff to start at [0]. I can think of some messy ways of doing this, but I am trying to find the correct way.

Any ideas here?

Pendragon

Well so far, this is what I have. Just a start on this nasty program.

#!/usr/bin/php4

<?php

$lines = file("php://stdin");

foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
print $line . "\n";
}

exit(0);
?>

Output looks like this.

This mail is sent by logcheck. If you do not want to receive it any more, please modify the configuration files in /etc/logcheck or deinstall logcheck.

Unusual System Events

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Sep 15 14:04:13 server sshd[26733]: Could not reverse map address 68.191.109.205.

Sep 15 14:04:43 server sshd[26735]: Accepted publickey for zertis from 68.191.109.205 port 1762 ssh2 Sep 15 14:04:47 server su[26741]: + pts/0 zertis-root

I get the input from an internal email. I am going to run eregs on the two bottom events, and do special stuff with them. I gotta ignore the top stuff though. All emails have this in them "=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=" But they are all slightly different other than that. They do however follow this basic format. I just have to skip past the =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= so I can start running eregs where the print is right now.

I am not sure if this is actually an array or a multi lined string, but it prints array if I try to just echo out lines.

laserlight

Use [man]array_search/man to find the key of that unique element, then use [man]array_slice/man.

Pendragon

That is alot prettier code than what I had.

$lines = file("php://stdin");

$lock = 0;
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
    if ($lock == '1') {

print $line;
// later, this will be where it is processed.

}
if(strstr($line, '=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-='))
   $lock = '1';
}

Thankyou very much.