Re: Appending to a file
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:36:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Appending to a file | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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>I'm just curious if there's a function that allows you to see how many lines
>there are in a file. I could just set up a while(!feof($fp)) { fgets($fp);
>count++; } obviously, but I'm curious if there's a function built in like
>"flines($fp)" that I haven't noticed at php.net?
If it's a relatively small file, it might be a little faster to do:
<?php
$file = file("filename.txt" or die("Could not open file");
echo count($file);
?>
It will suck the whole file into an array of lines faster than you can do
fgets() in PHP.
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