stripping spaces

[Anon]

Hi again,

I\'m using the below script (which someone on here kindly gave me) to call certain characters from a file. Trouble is, if I ask for more characters than there are in the file, the rest become spaces. Is there a way to call ONLY characters and stop after that, i.e. no spaces?

Hope this makes sense, but of a novice, see.

<?php
$fch = \"$username.$offset.htm\";
$fp = fopen($fch, \"r\");
$file_content = fread($fp, filesize($fch));
$a_part_of_the_file = substr($file_content, 0, 8);
fclose($fp);
echo $a_part_of_the_file;
?>

Thanks in advance,

[yurko]

Im not sure if I understand you.
But to kick spacesfrom both left and right sides of string use trim();
Also there is ltrim() and rtrim() functions to kick spaces from left or right sides of string only.

<?php
$fch = "$username.$offset.htm";
$fp = fopen($fch, "r");
$file_content = fread($fp, filesize($fch));
$a_part_of_the_file = trim(substr($file_content, 0, 8));
fclose($fp);
echo $a_part_of_the_file;
?>

[Anon]

Thanks Yuriy, I'll see how I get on :o)