Posted by John Smith on 01/24/07 16:33

Cheers, I'll give it a go.

"Erwin Moller"
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> 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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