Ashley Sheridan wrote:
Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> I was just wondering why fread() seems to use so much memory when
> reading in a file. My php.ini has a script memory limit of 32MB, yet PHP
> hits its memory limit on a 19MB mbox file that I'm reading in. How is it
> possible that this function can use 150% of a files' size in memory?!
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> 
> 
> 

Is it possible that the file is 8-bit characters and your PHP implementation is
converting it to 16-bit characters?
I'm not sure what settings would be involved for that, but no-one else has
responded so I thought a vague idea might be better than nothing!

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