Just a general question on explode() [ANSWERED]

[ted_chou12]

I just have a general simple question to ask, if you only have one piece of data stored in your text file, do you always have to use the function explode to get it into a string?
Thanks

[roopurt18]

explode returns an array, not a string.

[ted_chou12]

thanks for replying, here is an example to clarify my point:
my text file
[code]
This is a the data
[/code]

what i want to do is get it into a string in the php page, what function would be able to do that?

[bljepp69]

Check out [url=http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php]file_get_contents()[/url]