Re: fscanf and memory

Hi, Friday, February 27, 2004, 4:48:20 AM, you wrote: SG> Hi, SG> I don't know if it's a bug in php but if I do SG> $fp=fopen("some_file","r"); SG> while (!feof($fp)) SG> { SG> fscanf($fp, "%d %d",&$var1,&$var2); SG> // some treatment SG> } SG> fclose($fp); SG> and the file is big enough, php eat up memory like hot cakes. SG> But if I do SG> $fp=fopen("some_file","r"); SG> while (!feof($fp)) SG> { SG> $line = fscanf($fp, "%d %d"); SG> list ($var1, $var2) = $line; SG> // some treatment SG> } SG> fclose($fp); SG> It work just fine. Seems a problem with fscanf. SG> Has someone ever experienced this? Any advises? SG> Oh btw I'm using php 4.3.4 with Apache 1.3.29 SG> Thanks in advance SG> Sébastien Guay SG> _________________________________________________________________ SG> MSN Search, le moteur de recherche qui pense comme vous ! SG> http://fr.ca.search.msn.com/ Thats not the way to use scanf, I think you are doing a scanf for each line in the file. It should be something like: while(fscanf($fp, "%d %d",&$var1,&$var2)){ //... do something with the values } -- regards, Tom