Question

I have a quick question.

As the title says, I’d like to find a way to count the number of lines that contain a specified string in a file, in PHP.

I know I could simply open the file and loop through all the lines and see if anything matches, but that seems kind of cumbersome. Is there a better way?

To further illustrate what I want to do, here’s how it could look with awk:

awk '/KEYWORD/ {i++} END { print i }' FILE

Thanks!

Answer 1

This hardly seems “cumbersome” to me:

$c = 0;
foreach(file($filename) as $line)
  if (strpos($line, $str) !== false) ++$c;

You might be able to get away with a regular expression, but if you truly want to count the lines (as opposed to instances), there’s surely not a cleaner way (in terms of brevity and clarity) than the above method.

Edit, per the first comment:

echo substr_count(file_get_contents($filename), $str);

That should work.