read line from text file

[lucas]

I have a text file that i would like to use PHP to read from. each line
ends with a \n. i need to read from the beginning of the line, only upto
that \n
right now i'm using this, which is sloppy and slow:

if ($chr = fgetc($file)) != "\n") { }

which of course reads in one byte at a time till the end of line. is there
a better way?
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[nc]

lucas wrote:

I have a text file that i would like to use PHP to read from. each line ends with a \n. i need to read from the beginning of the line, only upto that \n
right now i'm using this, which is sloppy and slow:

if ($chr = fgetc($file)) != "\n") { }

which of course reads in one byte at a time till the end of line. is there a better way?

Yes; read up on fgets():

http://www.php.net/fgets

Cheers,
NC

[Pedro Graca]

[e-mail] wrote:

lucas wrote:

if ($chr = fgetc($file)) != "\n") { }

http://www.php.net/fgets

If you need to process all lines in the file (and the file isn't
extraordinarily big) also consider

http://www.php.net/file
http://www.php.net/file_get_contents (for PHP >= 4.3.0)

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[lucas]

[e-mail] wrote:

Yes; read up on fgets():

Thanks. I read about that one before, but the manual says you need to
specify x amount of bytes, after you mentioned it, i checked it closer, and
the size was optional. thanks much. sped up my script from 12 secs
to .5 ;)
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[jblanch]

you could also read the entire file into one string, then use explode()
and the \n delimiter. Its very low-level and childish, but works
effectivly and is easy to understand and work with..

Ex:
$filename = "yourfile.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

$lines = explode("\n",$lines);
foreach($lines as $line){
// line is stored in $line
}

[Daniel Tryba]

jblanch <jb*****@gmail.com> wrote:

$filename = "yourfile.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

$lines = explode("\n",$lines);
foreach($lines as $line){
// line is stored in $line
}

Never heard of file()?

[jblanch]

hm, guess file works too eh? but its the same idea, just without the
fopen/ect functions.

[Daniel Tryba]

jblanch <jb*****@gmail.com> wrote:

hm, guess file works too eh? but its the same idea, just without the
fopen/ect functions.

file() works for any textfile, you example is only for unix type of
files. DOS type will have \r cluttering the end of lines. Mac files will
appear to contain 1 single line.

You could fix it by using preg_split("/(\r\n|\r|\n)/",$line) instead of
explode("\n",$line).

BTW is it really so hard to keep some context in your postings?

[jblanch]

Daniel Tryba wrote:

jblanch <jb*****@gmail.com> wrote:

hm, guess file works too eh? but its the same idea, just without the fopen/ect functions.
file() works for any textfile, you example is only for unix type of
files. DOS type will have \r cluttering the end of lines. Mac files

will appear to contain 1 single line.

You could fix it by using preg_split("/(\r\n|\r|\n)/",$line) instead of explode("\n",$line).

BTW is it really so hard to keep some context in your postings?

I'm sorry, but correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't he state that he
needs to read to \n? yes, i'm sure he did. there is nothing wrong
with the method i described, and i'm 100% sure it would work for him.
Hows that for context?