Read a file with filter, and give the output

[innamorato.pazzo]

Hi!
I would like to create a php script that read a txt file and filter it
with 2 keywords, first keyword deifne the start and the second one the
end of the txt to read.
And then give the output extracted.

Expter of the group, could you help me?
thanks!

[burgermeister01]

On Aug 27, 8:31 am, [e-mail] wrote:

Hi!
I would like to create a php script that read a txt file and filter it
with 2 keywords, first keyword deifne the start and the second one the
end of the txt to read.
And then give the output extracted.

Expter of the group, could you help me?
thanks!

You might be looking for something like the following. I haven't
tested this, so I'm sure my string parsing is off by one, or
something. Also the variable names are kind of long for clarity's
sake; you may want to shorten them.

$file_path = "/path/to/file.txt";
$contents = file_get_contents($file_path);

$start_string_position = strpos($contents, "start");
$end_string_position = strpos($contents, "end",
$start_string_position);
$extracted_string_length = $end_string_position -
$start_string_position;

$extracted_string = substr($contents, $start_string_position,
$extracted_string_length);

[gosha bine]

On 27.08.2007 15:31 in**************@gmail.com wrote:

Hi!
I would like to create a php script that read a txt file and filter it
with 2 keywords, first keyword deifne the start and the second one the
end of the txt to read.
And then give the output extracted.

Expter of the group, could you help me?
thanks!

preg_match('~start(.*?)end~s',
file_get_contents('filename'),
$matches
);

the output will be in $matches[1]

--
gosha bine

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