> Hey guys, I've been searching the manual for a way to grab the number of > lines in a file and read a particular line from it, however I found no > solution to my problem so I'm wondering if any of you out there could help > me
file() will read the file into an array, one line per element, so... $line_to_read = 55; $file_array = file('file.txt'); echo $file_array[$line_to_read]; Remember that arrays are zero based. ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php