>>>yes you are right, so get back to the first question how could I know number of bytes read by FGETS?
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>>You cannot and even if you could the problem of the split will be the same.
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>the split problem will not exist with FGETS because we are reading till crriage return found, so we are safe.
>but you are saying no way to know how if fgets read the whole 8192 bytes or less, no work around this??

Check len() in help.
Cetin