title: How to get x amount of characters from text file using php?
body: <p>I'm trying to get about 200 letters/chars (including spaces) from a external text file. I've got the code to display the text i'll include that but to get certain letters i've got no idea. Once again i'm not talking about line's i really mean letters.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
      $file = "Nieuws/NieuwsTest.txt";
      echo file_get_contents($file) . '&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;';
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>