Question

Was just wondering if there is anything that exists to retrieve a certain amount of lines from a file or should I just go ahead & make an array of it with file & then loop through it until I get the required data?

All I’m trying to do is get the first 11 lines of data from a file (or less if there aren’t 11).

Answer 1

For such a small amount of lines, I’d recommend fopen(). This way for big files you haven’t read in the whole thing.

Example:

$fp = fopen('somefile.txt', 'r');
$i = 0;
while ( ($line = fgets($fp)) !== false && $i < 12 ) {
  ++$i;
  echo "$i: $line<br>";
}
fclose($fp);

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