Regex help

[loquela]

Hi there,

I have about 8,000 html files that I want to strip all code from the top of the file to upto and including the </head> tag and then I wann strip the </html> from each of the files.

 

Does anybody have any advice?

 

Cheers!

[.josh]

Can't really give you a suggestion about how to get your list of files into the $files array below unless you provide more details....but this should do the trick (I suggest you make backups first):

$files = array('file1.html','file2.html','file3.html');
foreach($files as $file) {
  $file = file_get_contents($file);
  $file = preg_replace('^.*?</head>(.*?)</html>(.*)$~is','$1$2',$file);
  file_put_contents($file);
}

 

You might (probably will) also need to use set_time_limit or something to keep your script from timing out.