From 9928bc93ee7bfbf0bca61d298926b3fceedcbb26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan Javier Triff Cabanas <jjtriff@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:21:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] add the linesToSkip attribute and the correspondent
 setter

---
 library/Fanatique/Parser/FixedLengthFileParser.php | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/library/Fanatique/Parser/FixedLengthFileParser.php b/library/Fanatique/Parser/FixedLengthFileParser.php
index 738d981..f8f6da4 100644
--- a/library/Fanatique/Parser/FixedLengthFileParser.php
+++ b/library/Fanatique/Parser/FixedLengthFileParser.php
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ class FixedLengthFileParser implements ParserInterface
      */
     protected $content = array();
 
+    /** @var int $linesToSkip Amount of lines to skip */
+    protected $linesToSkip = 0;
+
     /**
      * Expects an array with n arrays containing :
      * 'field_name', 'start', 'length'
@@ -123,6 +126,17 @@ public function getContent()
         return $this->content;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Sets a certain amount of lines to skip at the top of the file
+     *
+     * @param int $lines Amount of lines to skip
+     * @return void
+     **/
+    public function setLinesToSkip(int $lines = 0)
+    {
+        $this->linesToSkip = $lines;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Main method for parsing.
      *

From cfbc462dd00e23fcf661995e257bcb6d342e4890 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan Javier Triff Cabanas <jjtriff@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:22:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] introduce the skipping logic inside the parse method

---
 library/Fanatique/Parser/FixedLengthFileParser.php | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/library/Fanatique/Parser/FixedLengthFileParser.php b/library/Fanatique/Parser/FixedLengthFileParser.php
index f8f6da4..5df4737 100644
--- a/library/Fanatique/Parser/FixedLengthFileParser.php
+++ b/library/Fanatique/Parser/FixedLengthFileParser.php
@@ -161,6 +161,14 @@ public function parse()
         //Parse file line by line
         $this->content = array();
         $filePointer = fopen($this->file, "r");
+
+        // skip as many lines as setted
+        $i = 0;
+        while ($i < $this->linesToSkip && !feof($filePointer)) {
+            fgets($filePointer, 4096);
+            $i++;
+        }
+
         while (!feof($filePointer)) {
             $buffer = fgets($filePointer, 4096);
 

From ef9ea7082bff48d53fef33f2dcd0d7a2a7d7b3a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan Javier Triff Cabanas <jjtriff@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:36:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] introduce the new feature inside the readme

---
 README.md | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c74f12b..845f163 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ You can:
 - register a pre flight check to determine whether or not a row has to be parsed
 - register a callback to handle each line
 - register a chopping map which transforms each row into an assiciative array
+- register a number of lines to skip at the top of the file
 
 
 ## Usage ##
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ This example ignores any line which md5 sum is `f23f81318ef24f1ba4df4781d79b7849
 
 ### Registering a callback ###
 
-Finally you can register a callback which is applied to each parsed line and allows you to process it.
+You can register a callback which is applied to each parsed line and allows you to process it.
 The closure gets the parsed line as an array and it is expected to return an array of the same format.
 
     $parser->setCallback(function(array $currentLine) {
@@ -84,3 +85,27 @@ The closure gets the parsed line as an array and it is expected to return an arr
                 return $currentLine;
             }
     );
+
+### Registering lines to skip ###
+
+Finally you, can register a certain number of lines to skip from the top of the parsed file. Just in case 
+the first lines introduce non-interesting information, like titles for the data or headers. Of course, you must do this before parsing.
+
+    $parser->setLinesToSkip(2);
+    $parser->parse();
+
+For a file like this:
+
+```
+Name                           Score
+______________________________ _____
+Jules                              8
+Fer                               10
+Albert                             5
+...
+```
+
+To unset the skips:
+
+    $parser->setLinesToSkip(0);
+    
\ No newline at end of file