Close. You need to adjust for the length of your pattern. So if you're matching against "<!- start ->", then your actual start position (minus the start comment) is the strpos plus strlen($pattern), or 14 in this case.
$startPos = strpos($file, '<!- start ->') + 14; -- Matt Grimm Web Developer The Health TV Channel, Inc. (a non - profit organization) 3820 Lake Otis Parkway Anchorage, AK 99508 907.770.6200 ext. 686 907.336.6205 (fax) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.healthtvchannel.org "Jlake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've been looking around for a bit and can't quite find what I'm looking to > do. > > I want to read a file (from a pattern matched start position) to (a pattern > matched end position) > > $startPos = strpos($file, '<!- start ->'); > $endPos = strpos($file, '<!- end ->'); > > $stuff = fread($file, ($endPos - $startPos)); > > something like that ? > > Thanks, > > J. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
