Re: File Write Operation Slows to a Crawl....

Thanks Paul and Shawn: I can't answer the Why's in your posts, as this is literally my first attempt at PHP, but I will investigate your response and refine my code accordingly. What I did find is that by replacing the following code: $fhandle = fopen("/ramdrive/import_file.txt", "w"); foreach($new_format as $data) { fputs($fhandle, "$data"); } fclose($fhandle); with this code: $fp = fopen('data.txt', 'a'); fwrite($fp, $new_format[$each_rec]); fclose($fp); The parsing finished literally, within seconds. I don't have to worry about anyone else opening this file, so I think this should work ok. Thanks for your help.... Fred Schnittke ---------------------------- Powered by Execulink Webmail http://www.execulink.com/