Try this $temp = fgets($fp,4096); $line = substr($temp,0,10);
Robbert van Andel -----Original Message----- From: Paul Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] substr() help working on a peice of code that should be pretty easy, but for some reason I am not getting any results. I want the first 10 characters of each line from the file I am reading and am using this code: $temp = str_replace("\n", "", fgets($fp, 4096)); $line = substr ($temp, 0, 5); when I test for temp I get 30 responses - which is correct, but when I test for $line I get Zero responses. Did I make a mistake in my code Paul Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php