Re: How to jump 7 rows in array

> I'm loading a set of txt files into a DB. The first 7 lines of each file > are useless to me... > I want some way I can always jump those 7 lines... I tought of doing a > little function like jumpfirstsevenrows(array), but then I'd have to pass > the whole array as parameter and that can get real memory consuming for > such a small task. I'll have arrays with more than 100.000 lines... I think you can still use: function skip7 (&$array){ for ($i = 0; $i < 7; $i++, next($array)); } The & should keep the array from being pushed on the stack, or at least it did in PHP3. I'm afraid & got rather more complicated in PHP4, so I'm not 100% sure *what* it would do. > since there are pointers in PHP, I'm lost... I don't wanna have to get the > same 'for bla bla bla code' in each and every function that processes this > file (there is one function per file, more then 20 overall)... Another possiblity would be to write a function to first figure out where the 8th line started, and then use fopen/fseek/fread to always skip to that byte in the file and then start returning lines from there. -- Visit the Zend Store at http://www.zend.com/store/ Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm