Posted by Erwin Moller on 01/24/07 09:08

John Smith wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> New to this, have the basics, can build a form and such. My problem is I
> need to be able to open a file on a pc/s on the network, read the data
> character by character, check to see if a certain character is present, if
> it is, update the database and continue reading the file until it comes
> across the character again, updates the database and so on . . . .
>
> Anybody got any suggestions, all help gratefuly received!!

Hi John,

Go to www.php.net and search for:
- fopen() and file() to open and read files (even over http)
- substr() to get pieces out of a string.
Or use the array-index approach:
$myStr = "hello";
echo $myStr[1]; // will echo e

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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