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
