Can't reach a character in a string

[wolfmah]

I'm trying to retreive the first character of a string which is in an array but I can only reach the first char of only the first element.

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$bands= "";
$file= fopen("bands.txt", "r");
while (!feof ($file)) { $bands.= fgets($file); }
fclose ($file);

$bandsArray= explode("/*****/", $bands);

for ($i= 0; $i < count($bandsArray); ++$i)
   {
   echo($bandsArray[$i]{0});
   }


In this example, the array is containing 9 elements that can be all seen if I don't put the {0} in the echo function. The problem is that I only see the first char of only the first element.

Also, if I declare my array with explicit content like this

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$bandsArray= array("Ab", "Bc", "Cd", "De", "Ef", "Fg", "Gh", "Hi", "Ij");


and use the same for statement, I see all first char of the 9 elements.

Why is it doing this?

[Joan Garnet]

I've used another method:

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<?php
$bands= ("tindersticks-scott walker-plaid-pluxus-the residents");
$bandsArray= explode("-", $bands);
for ($i= 0; $i < sizeof($bandsArray); $i++){
   echo substr( $bandsArray[$i] , 0 , 1 )."<br>";
   }
?>

But I know there are those Perl based functions preg_replace that work perfect although I don't know them...

;)

[wolfmah]

I found what my problem was, I was able to reach the first character, but the first character was a carriage return. Now, I do a trim() before accessing them and everything works fine.