RE: [PHP] # of lines in a file
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Mon, 09 Dec 2002 17:05:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] # of lines in a file | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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> Hey guys, I've been searching the manual for a way to grab the number
of
> lines in a file and read a particular line from it, however I found no
> solution to my problem so I'm wondering if any of you out there could
help
> me
file() will read the file into an array, one line per element, so...
$line_to_read = 55;
$file_array = file('file.txt');
echo $file_array[$line_to_read];
Remember that arrays are zero based.
---John W. Holmes...
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