To do the line count first, you have to read the whole file, how would you do it?
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Richard Heyes<rich...@php.net> wrote: > Hi, > >> 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. > > Sure you can, simply do the line count first, then the insert. If it's > a big file it will still be quicker than reading the whole thing into > memory. > > -- > 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
