Search within a fixed width text file?

Read each line in turn and search within it with strpos by passing in the $offset parameter to start the search from your column. Then check the return value and ignore a "successful" search if it actually found the result in another column (knowing the width of the target column reduces this to an integer comparison).

Read each line in turn and search within it with strpos by passing in the $offset parameter to start the search from your column. Then check the return value and ignore a "successful" search if it actually found the result in another column (knowing the width of the target column reduces this to an integer comparison). Alternatively, you might substr the target column from each line and search only within that, in which case you do perform a possibly needless string operation but on the other hand you cut down on the length of the string to be searched (and there's no need to check if the result was found in another column).

In your shoes, I 'd benchmark it a bit before deciding which approach to take.

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