Re: CSV file

2009/6/24 Jonathan Tapicer <tapicer@gmail.com>: > If you want to know how many lines there are *before* inserting to the > database, you can't count "as you go", you have to either read the > file twice or read it once, store it memory in a variable and then > insert in the database. Do it in bytes rather than lines, then you don't waste time loading the file twice and you'll get the same end result. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Richard Heyes<richard@php.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> You can read the whole file (file_get_contents) and count the number >>> of "\n" in it, or read it line by line with fgets and store the lines >>> in an array, and then the number of lines is the count() of the array, >>> and you can use that array to store it in the database. >> >> If you have a billion line CSV then speed may suffer somewhat though. >> Best to still use fgets()  or fgetcsv() and count as you go. >> >> -- >> Richard Heyes >> HTML5 graphing: RGraph (www.rgraph.net - updated 20th June) >> PHP mail: RMail (www.phpguru.org/rmail) >> PHP datagrid: RGrid (www.phpguru.org/rgrid) >> PHP Template: RTemplate (www.phpguru.org/rtemplate) >> PHP SMTP: http://www.phpguru.org/smtp >> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >