reading a specific dat from a text file

Question

I am new to php. I am trying extract a particular value from a joke file using file_get_content( text.txt, NULL,NULL, 200, 4) but it returns the values after the 200th character. please is there a better way to do this. like instead of specifying the position which may vary i specify a word rather

No, just get the whole content and after that find your word in this string — Anarion, Aug 28 '17 at 11:03
here is the file: drops Input bandwidth utilization : 26.38% Output bandwidth utilization : 6.06% then thekkvmmvc. so i want just the two values so that i can save in my database. — Jillnkir, Aug 28 '17 at 11:08
ok. I believe you should try something like [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/3686246/5588347). — StackUseR, Aug 28 '17 at 11:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 28 '17 at 11:16

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Perhaps this solution might be what you are looking for?

<?php
$mystring = 'abc';
$findme   = 'a';
$pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);

if ($pos === false) {
    echo "Not found";
} else {
    echo "The string '$findme' was found in the string '$mystring'";
    echo " and exists at position $pos";
}
?>

answered Aug 28 '17 at 11:16

kuylis

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this gives the position which is not what i want. i want the value after the position – Jillnkir Aug 28 '17 at 11:29
Using substr('abcde', 0, 1); would get you the value at the given position. In this example it searches the string 'abcde' , starts at the first character and returns only 1 character. Is this perhaps what you're looking for? – kuylis Aug 28 '17 at 11:40

reading a specific dat from a text file

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