one line at a time file read

[longbow486]

Is it possible to read a text file one line at a time and have it put into a numbered array

thanks
-Phil

[NogDog]

[man]file/man

[laserlight]

[man]file/man might be what you are looking for.

[halojoy]

have a look at the function
[man]file[/man]

it does just about what you want
the array will be numbered 0,1,2,3 etc

[longbow486]

ok, i decided to use file_get_contents and explode them, but i dont know what the carrage return is for PHP, so that i can use that to seperate the lines. or do i have to add in a new char for the lines to be seperated

Thanks
-Phil

[laserlight]

ok, i decided to use file_get_contents and explode them, but i dont know what the carrage return is for PHP, so that i can use that to seperate the lines.

Three people in a row suggested file(). Clearly that is a very strong suggestion.

As for carriage return, that would be "\n", but whether to use carriage return, line feed, or carriage return + line feed depends more on the file's end of line encoding than PHP. Still, if I remember correctly, just using "\n" typically works. Nonetheless, just use file().

[longbow486]

thanks, that does work so much better then what i was going to do, when i was reading about file, it looked like to me that it was a byte by byte loader.

Phil

[NogDog]

Note that each array element created by file() will retain whatever line-ending characters were used. If this is a problem, just use [man]rtrim/man when dealing with any given element of that array.