RE: [PHP] Splitting string
| From: | Steven Macintyre | Date: | Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:27:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Splitting string | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.general |
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Hi,
> Ah, so it's not 50 space padding but columns at 50 characters,
> space-padded?
>
> In that case, just use substr().
>
> $var1 = substr($string, 0, 50);
> $var2 = substr($string, 50, 50);
> $var3 = substr($string, 100, 50);
>
> And then trim() if needed
>
> Of course, what it sounds like you really want is a file that is
> formatted to
> proper CSV in the first place so that you can use fgetcsv().
>
Brilliant! Works fab ... thank you ...
The file will always be the same format etc - so I this is brilliant...
Ta
Steven