extract text between two strings

[shishir]

hi,

This is Shishir Agarwal. I am facing a major problem.
I want to extract text between two strings from a text file. I have no idea how to do it. please help me to solve my problem. my mail id is shishir76@gmail.com.

thanks,
Shishir Agarwal

[Bruce_KD]

I'm assuming by the text between two string you mean something like

'Hello. I like to write code in php. It is a lot of fun.'

The words would be 'like' and 'lot'.

//First, open the file. Change your filename
$file = "file.txt";
$word1='like';
$word2='lot';


$handle = fopen($file, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($file));
fclose($handle);

$between=substr($contents, strpos($contents, $word1), strpos($contents, $word2) - strpos($contents, $word1));

echo $between; 

Bruce

[edpudol]

you can also use php split function check it here http://www.php.net/split