getting line from a file

[Anon]

Admittedly this is my first attempt with php, am I'm just playing around with something... but...

I have a cgi file with the following lines:

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First line: 2|creatorgenesis|News about events|0|5|26|2002|4|26|32|PM|0|0|0|yes|yes|open|3|

Second line: 0.0.0.0|I

Third line: News about events, or details about upcoming events is posted to here!

---

I want to print the third line to my page, I've got the following PHP on my page:

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$entry_ref = "/home/fountain/public_html/archives/$entry_number_padded$file_suffix";
$line_entry = file($entry_ref);
$total_line_entry = count($line_entry);
$j=0;

$actual_entry = $line_entry[$j];

However, when I use the variable $actual_entry[2], it prints the third character to the page, rather than the third line. What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks,

creatorgenesis

[alfoxy]

if you try
$array = file("filename.txt");
echo $array[2];

should give you the third line
Al