RE: [PHP-WIN] Reading in text file characters

I always look in the manual first. I guess I missed it. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Mikey [mailto:mikey@splatted.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:42 AM To: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Reading in text file characters You could try using the substr() function, it will take any number of chars from any place in a string. However, I think you could have found this had you been bothered to look in the manual first... HTH, Mikey > -----Original Message----- > From: Nichols, Mark A. [mailto:markn@spicergroup.com] > Sent: 15 January 2003 15:17 > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Reading in text file characters > > > The following code reads in a text file one line at a time. > > > > for ($k=0; $k<=count($readfile)-1; $k++) { > > $fields = split("\t",$readfile[$k]); > > echo nl2br("$fields[0]<br>"); > > > > } > > > > The problem is that it seems to strip the empty spaces out. > > > > My text file is formatted by lengths. I need to read the first 25 > characters from the text file. Then read 50 more... And so on. > > > > Can anyone give my the code for reading in a certain number of > characters from a text file. > > > > Thank you in advance. > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php