When grabbing, I need to limit the characters to grab

[nwoeddie23]

I'm trying to grab file.txt, so I put

$filename = file("file.txt");

So at that now I grab certain lines from that file like so:

$sub1 = ("$filename[35]");

That grabs line 35 in file.txt

Now to print it:

<? print "$sub1"; ?>

Suppose line 35 has over 500 characters in it, can I set it to grab a certain amount? (Lets say 300).

-Thanks

[superwormy]

www.php.net/substr would do the trick... its truncating though, not neccessarily only grabbing the first 500 chars...