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Name

file — Reads a file into an array.

Synopsis

array file(filename); string filename:

Returns

Array containing file contents; FALSE on error

Description

file() reads the contents of a file into an array, with each line of the file being an element of the array. Newline characters remain attached to the strings.

Warning

Because some of the filesystem functions to read/write from files partially share the same code, one or more of the bugs reported elsewhere may also apply to this function.

3.0.8, 3.0.11: Crashes when reading from URLs on Linux 2.0.36.

3.0.8, 3.0.9: Successive calls won't work on Solaris 2.5.1 / Apache 1.3.6.

Example

Example 310. Dump a file

$file_array = file("test.txt");

for($i = 0; $i < count($file_array); $i++)
{
    echo ("\$file_array[$i] equals $file_array[$i]<br>");
}

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