Question

How to read specific character (e.g. character number 7) from a text file in PHP

Answer 1

$f = fopen("e:/numbers.txt", "r") or die("Error open file!");
$char_number = 7;
$i = 1;
$ch = "";
while(!feof($f)) 
{
  if ($i == $char_number)
  {
      $ch = fgetc($f);
      break;
  }
  fgetc($f);
  if ($ch != "\r" && $ch != "\n")  
      $i++;
}
fclose($f);
 
echo $ch;


/*
run:

2

*/

 

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