Question

I am aware that this:

    <?php

$file2 = file('website/files/myfolder/file.html');

echo $file2[8];
echo $file2[9];
echo $file2[10];
echo $file2[11];


?>

would give me the contents on lines 8,9,10,11 in the file.html file, however I would like to do this for about 100 lines ranging from lines 23 to 116. How would I accomplish this without using the echo $file2[NUMBER]; one hundrend times?

Another way to explain what I am trying to do would be possibly if I could do this in php:

echo $file2[23-116];

obviously this will not work but that is the concept.

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Use a loop like so

$data = file('website/files/myfolder/file.html');
for ($i = 23; $i <= 116; $i++) {
    echo $data[$i];
}

• http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.for.php

Or you could splice the data:

$data = file('website/files/myfolder/file.html');
echo implode(PHP_EOL, array_splice($data, 23, 116 - 23));

• http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-splice.php
• http://php.net/manual/en/function.implode.php