ID:               48420
 User updated by:  ryan dot brothers at gmail dot com
 Reported By:      ryan dot brothers at gmail dot com
 Status:           Bogus
 Bug Type:         Streams related
 Operating System: Linux
 PHP Version:      5.*, 6CVS(2009-05-29)
 New Comment:

Thanks for your reply.  Shouldn't stream_get_line() find the EOF since
it will read the first 5 characters and then find the EOF when trying to
read the next character since $length = 6?  Also, if what you wrote is
the case, I'm not sure why this:

<?php
$fp = tmpfile();

fwrite($fp, "12345");

fseek($fp, 0);
var_dump(stream_get_line($fp, 6, "\n"));
?>

returns:

bool(false)

but this works successfully:

<?
$fp = tmpfile();

fwrite($fp, "12345\n67890");

fseek($fp, 0);
var_dump(stream_get_line($fp, 6, "\n"));
var_dump(stream_get_line($fp, 6, "\n"));
?>

returns:

string(5) "12345"
string(5) "67890"

On the 2nd call to stream_get_line(), there are 5 bytes remaining to be
read, $length = 6, and there are no \n's remaining, which is the same
exact scenario as my first example above.  In my first example,
stream_get_line() returns false, but in the 2nd example,
stream_get_line() returns the expected string - should both of these
calls have the same results?

I encountered this issue when trying to use stream_get_line() to parse
very large text files reading in each file in sections delimited by a
string delimiter, but one of my text files did not contain this
delimiter and stream_get_line() returned false for that file which I
don't believe was correct.  I was expecting it to read in the entire
file since $length was greater than the size of the file, which is what
the documentation says should occur.

Thanks again for your assistance.


Previous Comments:
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[2009-06-01 13:03:18] il...@php.net

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

Because the file is still open there is no EOF, so the
stream_get_line() 
cannot find the line's end and there is no EOF, thus it returns false.

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[2009-05-29 13:09:26] ryan dot brothers at gmail dot com

Thanks for your feedback.  I tried it on the latest PHP 5.3 snapshot
and got the same results.

I noticed though when I run this:

<?php
fseek($fp, 0);
var_dump(fgets($fp, 6));

fseek($fp, 0);
var_dump(fgets($fp, 7));
?>

I get the expected results of:

string(5) "12345"
string(5) "12345"

Since the manual page for stream_get_line() states that this function
is identical to fgets() except for handling of the delimiter, should
stream_get_line() return the same results as fgets() for this case since
my delimiter is a newline?

Also, I'm not sure why these 2 calls to stream_get_line() return
different output:

<?php
fseek($fp, 0);
var_dump(stream_get_line($fp, 6));

fseek($fp, 0);
var_dump(stream_get_line($fp, 6, "\n"));
?>

Result:

string(5) "12345"
bool(false)

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[2009-05-29 09:00:45] lbarn...@php.net

Verified. Actually this may be expected.

<?php
fseek($fp, 0);
var_dump(stream_get_line($fp, 6, "\n"));
?>

If stream_get_line() reads only 5 bytes here there is no way to tell if
this is the end of the stream (without re-reading from the stream, which
would block on sockets, etc). So it can't find the end of the line and
return false.

The next call to stream_get_line() will mark the stream as EOF, and
stream_get_line will return the line:

<?php
$fp = tmpfile();
fwrite($fp, '12345');
fseek($fp, 0);

while (!feof($fp)) {
 $line = stream_get_line($fp);
 if ($line === false) continue;
 var_dump($line);
}
?>

Result:
string(5) "12345"

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[2009-05-29 08:39:03] lbarn...@php.net

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.3-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:

  http://windows.php.net/snapshots/



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[2009-05-28 22:21:09] ryan dot brothers at gmail dot com

Description:
------------
When you pass to stream_get_line() a $length that is greater than the
file size and a $ending that does not appear in the file,
stream_get_line() returns bool(false) rather than the string that is in
your file.

In the below example, when I run stream_get_line() passing in a $length
of 6 and a $ending of "\n", stream_get_line() returns false rather than
the contents of the file.

The manual states "Reading ends when length bytes have been read, when
the string specified by ending is found (which is not included in the
return value), or on EOF (whichever comes first).", so I believe the
contents of my file should be returned since EOF is first to be reached.

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
$fp = tmpfile();

fwrite($fp, '12345');

fseek($fp, 0);
var_dump(stream_get_line($fp, 5));

fseek($fp, 0);
var_dump(stream_get_line($fp, 6));

fseek($fp, 0);
var_dump(stream_get_line($fp, 5, "\n"));

fseek($fp, 0);
var_dump(stream_get_line($fp, 6, "\n"));

fclose($fp);


Expected result:
----------------
string(5) "12345"
string(5) "12345"
string(5) "12345"
string(5) "12345"


Actual result:
--------------
string(5) "12345"
string(5) "12345"
string(5) "12345"
bool(false)



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