How to read a large file line by line?

Question

I want to read a file line by line, but without completely loading it in memory. My file is too large to open in memory, and if try to do so I always get out of memory errors. The file size is 1 GB.

Answer 1

Make sure not to use this function in php file_get_contents() instead use fopen()

Here is an example on how to read a large file in PHP

$handle = fopen("bigfile.txt", "r");

if ($handle) {

while (($line = fgets($handle)) !== false) {

// Process the lineecho $line;

}

fclose($handle);

} else {

echo "Error opening file.";

}

I hope this help