With regards to parsing a line in a file

[Polish_Man]

I have a question about if you can, after you open a file using Fgets(), or a different function to obtain each line, parse the line based upon character length ie

line is 74 characters first 11 = $a, next 12 =$b, and so on.......

is this possible in PHP or should I just revert to a different programing language ie Java...

Any thoughts would be helpful thanks for your time....

Polish_Man

[superwormy]

Anything is possible. :-)

Get it into a string, then parse it:
www.php.net/substr

[Pig]

file() will get the file with each line as part of the array. Then you can do a foreach() on the array, and substr() to get each component. You can use strlen to check the length.