reading a text file

Anon

Hello,

I have seen examples of reading text files by using fopen and fgets commands, but it look like you need to know the size of the file. I need to access a verity of files. How do I read the entire file without know how long it is? Thanks for any suggestions...

mwilson

My suggestion would be using file(), what this function does is return the entire file with every line an element in an array. The easiest way to grab an entire file into one variable is to use implode() along with file(), eg;

$filedata = implode("\n", file("myfile.txt"));

Simple

HTH

Matt

Anon

Thanks....

nashirak

If you are talking about the fgets($fp,4096) or something like that... the 4096 is just some size of a buffer... So no you dont need to know how big the file is. You just need to estimate some size of buffer. The fgets will read either to when it reaches 4096 bytes or until it gets to the \n (newline) charater in a file. What Matt has proposed is a good solution (just use file() ) However I just wanted you to be aware that saying that you need to know the file size using fgets... is incorrect. You just estimate some size of a line.

Hope that Helps!

Anon

opps... thanks for input