[RESOLVED] preg_replace

[AsianGuyJTran]

hi all

i'm working on this thing for school and i'm having a hard time with regex expressions
I need to take this

"Item No:  MIDWINTERS  Mid-Winter Single"

and use preg_replace so that i can use explode to toss out the header of a file
this is what i have so far

$header_replace = preg_replace ('/Item No:  /', "EventTrackerTool-Begin", $tab_replace);

only problem is, i have no idea how to get the quotes and the regex into the mix of things 😕
any pointers?

[laserlight]

Sorry, I am not sure what you are trying to do. What do you mean by "so that i can use explode to toss out the header of a file"?

[AsianGuyJTran]

in the attached file, i want to get rid of the first 9 lines and the last 5 lines [including blank lines]

so my idea is that i use preg_replace replace the 9th line with something obscure
then explode the string so that i would get the data i need alone

[laserlight]

One option is to use [man]file/man to read the file and then use [man]array_slice/man to get the portion you want, or simply start iterating from the 10th element to the 6th last element.

[AsianGuyJTran]

that works.
i had no idea that i can be done this way
thanks