You could do it using the substring it you ALWAYS for each line want the characters at that exact location.
$moo = "1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; $partition = substr($moo, 9, 5); this would return 5 characters from position 9 in the string which would be: 0ABCD hope this helps... > -----Original Message----- > From: sonjaya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 19 June 2002 8:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] parse text > > > i want read some tex like this > > here contens file text > > 1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ > > > 1. i want read from first left until eight caracter (12345678 <-- > caracter i cant read ) > it can be use fread > 2. i want read 5 from nine (9) caracter from left ( 0ABCD <--the > caracter must i read ) > so anybody can help me > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php