I have a script that parses large files line by line. When it encounters an error that it can't handle, it stops, notifying us of the last line parsed.
Is this really the best / only way to seek to a specific line in a file? (fseek() is not usable in my case.)
<?php
for ($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++)
fgets($fp); // just discard this
I don't have a problem using this, it is fast enough - it just feels a bit dirty. From what I know about the underlying code, I don't imagine there is a better way to do this.