RE: [PHP] getting one line from file

Michael, > > > >> $info = grep "676" > > > >> /tmp/somefile.txt; There are some minor tricks to help like $info = `cat /tmp/somefile.txt | head -9000 | grep '676'; but you would really be much better off putting 10 meg into a db engine and index the dickens out of it. WIth only 10k records your response time should be way < 1 second. --David Perry On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Michael Packer wrote: > The text file i'm search is 9,859,103 bytes (today, it will be a bit larger > tomorrow) > (30,072 lines) > > generally the line i'll be looking for is in the first 9,000 or so lines... > the web server that i'm doing this on is dual p3 500 with 512mb > > i'm only looking for the one line that contains a specific number (and i > know for a > fact that the number will not (ever) be duplicated in another line. > > pac