From the course: PHP Techniques: Working with Files and Directories

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Reading line by line

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Reading line by line

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- [Instructor] We know how to read characters and how to read an entire file. Often it's useful to read a file one line at a time. The PHP function fgets returns the next full line from a file. That's one line, all of the texts up until the next line return. It's useful when we want to read a file line by line. Most often you would use it inside a loop. It keeps track of which line is the next line using something called a file pointer which we'll discuss a little later. A classic use would be to read a CSV file where each row contains comma separated values. And then the PHP code can work with each line one at a time. Let's try it. To begin let's switch to fileaccess.php and select all and copy that code again. And then let's open a new file which we will save as file_lines.php and then I'll paste that code in there. I'll also just move this after file read. Instead of working with assetsloremipsum.txt, let's change…

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