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Salathe · 12-03-2008, 11:19 PM

The only trouble with using file is that you're loading the entire file into memory. Much better is to read the file line by line and do with it what you want.

Here are two approaches using this line of thought.

Plain old fopen/fgets

PHP Code:


			
$file = fopen('dictionary.txt', 'r');

while ( ! feof($file))

{

    $line = fgets($file, 1024);

    list($word, $type, $definition) = explode(' ', rtrim($line), 3);

}

SPL File Object

PHP Code:


			
$file = new SplFileObject('dictionary.txt');

foreach ($file as $line)

{

    list($word, $type, $definition) = explode(' ', rtrim($line), 3);

}

12-03-2008, 11:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
Salathe Moderateur Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,393 Thanks: 5	The only trouble with using `file` is that you're loading the entire file into memory. Much better is to read the file line by line and do with it what you want. Here are two approaches using this line of thought. Plain old fopen/fgets PHP Code: `$file = fopen('dictionary.txt', 'r'); while ( ! feof($file)) { $line = fgets($file, 1024); list($word, $type, $definition) = explode(' ', rtrim($line), 3); }` SPL File Object PHP Code: `$file = new SplFileObject('dictionary.txt'); foreach ($file as $line) { list($word, $type, $definition) = explode(' ', rtrim($line), 3); }`