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=<HANDLE>){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=<HANDLE>){do something with $line}".

Is there an equivalent function in PHP?

Thanks,
Kevin

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

C.

[Kevin]

Just what I was looking for, thanks!

- Kevin

"Colin McKinnon" <co**************@andthis.mms3.com> wrote in message
news:dd*******************@news.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=<HANDLE>){do something with $line}".

Is there an equivalent function in PHP?

Thanks,
Kevin

$handle=fopen(...);
while($line=fgets($handle)) {
...
}
fclose($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=<HANDLE>){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