fread, inproper echo

[Shai-Hulud]

the contents of the file online is: <id:0|Shai-Hulud|0>|

script:
<?php
$lid = 0;
$handle = fopen ('clan/members/online', "r");
if (filesize('clan/members/online'))
{
$old = fread($handle, filesize('clan/members/online'));
echo 'ok:' . $old;
}
if (strpos($old, 'id:' . $lid))
{
$a = strpos($old, 'id:' . $lid);
$b = strpos(substr($old, $a), '|') + 1;
$c = strpos(substr($old, $b), '|') - 1;
$nick = substr($old, $b, $c);
}

?>

output of old should be: ok:<id:0|Shai-Hulud|0>| , right?
but instead the output is: ok😐

whats wrong here? 😕

[leatherback]

Hi,

Not sure what you are trying to achieve. If you are after the nick why not use [man]explode[/man] to get the pieces?

Anyway.. Not sure what is going wrong. Have you tried using:

$old = fread($handle);

J.

[Shai-Hulud]

I never thougth of explode but this does not solve the prblem of the $old not being what it should be and the $old = fread($handle) didnt work also.

anyone know waht is worng here? 😕