Parsing large files by line

[Kevin]

Does anyone have a suggestion for parsing large files line by line without
loading the entire file into memory first? I don't want to use file()
because the files I'm working with may be multi-gigabyte so loading them
into arrays would be pretty memory intensive.

In Perl, I can do: "while($line=<H ANDLE>){do something with $line}".

Is there an equivalent function in PHP?

Thanks,
Kevin

[Colin McKinnon]

Kevin wrote:

Does anyone have a suggestion for parsing large files line by line without
loading the entire file into memory first? I don't want to use file()
because the files I'm working with may be multi-gigabyte so loading them
into arrays would be pretty memory intensive.

In Perl, I can do: "while($line=<H ANDLE>){do something with $line}".

Is there an equivalent function in PHP?

Thanks,
Kevin

$handle=fopen(. ..);
while($line=fge ts($handle)) {
...
}
fclose($handle) ;

C.

[Kevin]

Just what I was looking for, thanks!

- Kevin

"Colin McKinnon" <co************ **@andthis.mms3 .com> wrote in message
news:dd******** ***********@new s.demon.co.uk.. .

Kevin wrote:

Does anyone have a suggestion for parsing large files line by line
without
loading the entire file into memory first? I don't want to use file()
because the files I'm working with may be multi-gigabyte so loading them
into arrays would be pretty memory intensive.

In Perl, I can do: "while($line=<H ANDLE>){do something with $line}".

Is there an equivalent function in PHP?

Thanks,
Kevin

$handle=fopen(. ..);
while($line=fge ts($handle)) {
...
}
fclose($handle) ;

C.

[Markus]

Kevin schrieb:

Does anyone have a suggestion for parsing large files line by line without
loading the entire file into memory first? I don't want to use file()
because the files I'm working with may be multi-gigabyte so loading them
into arrays would be pretty memory intensive.

In Perl, I can do: "while($line=<H ANDLE>){do something with $line}".

Is there an equivalent function in PHP?

Thanks,
Kevin

$handle = fopen("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r");
while (!feof($handle) ) {
$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
echo $buffer;
}
fclose($handle) ;

more at www.php.net/fgets

Markus