02-16-2006
simple 'head' question
I'm sorry, but the example in the man pages was no help.
I know head -5 fileName will give you the first 5 lines of the file but how do you get like the 6th-13th lines only or one line before the end of the file? Sorry I just started learning the basics..... =(
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tidy_get_head
TIDY_GET_HEAD(3) 1 TIDY_GET_HEAD(3)
tidy::head - Returns atidyNodeobject starting from the <head> tag of the tidy parse tree
Object oriented style
SYNOPSIS
tidyNode tidy::head (void )
DESCRIPTION
Procedural style
tidyNode tidy_get_head (tidy $object)
Returns a tidyNode object starting from the <head> tag of the tidy parse tree.
PARAMETERS
o $object
- The Tidy object.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the tidyNode object.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
tidy_get_head(3) example
<?php
$html = '
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>';
$tidy = tidy_parse_string($html);
$head = $tidy->head();
echo $head->value;
?>
The above example will output:
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
NOTES
Note
This function is only available with Zend Engine 2 (PHP >= 5.0.0).
SEE ALSO
tidy.body(3), tidy.html(3).
PHP Documentation Group TIDY_GET_HEAD(3)