Re: Parsing a large file

On Fri, January 13, 2006 4:47 pm, Jay Paulson wrote: >> Buffering 10 lines of text in PHP is probably not going to make a >> significant difference... > > This is true. It's what I have written to start with. Basically I'm > just > trying to make sure that I'm not hogging system memory with a huge > file b/c > there are other apps running at the same time that need system > resources as > well. That's the main reason why I'm using a buffer to read the file > in and > parse it a little at a time. By all means test it out on your > hardware and > see what that buffer needs to be. I'm not saying not to read it a little at a time. I'm saying 1 line at a time, using the most natural code, is PROBABLY at least as fast as, if not faster than, the 10-line buffer version posted. And the 1-line buffer of PHP fgets() is far easier to maintain. So unless you've got test data to prove the 10-line buffer helps, throw it out, and just use fgets() 1-line buffer. :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm