Seek to a line of code than break from while to improve performance. Seek to specific line using SEEK_SET and get a specific line. If $range is '0' than will show seeked line. If set to '2' it will show current line + 2 lines above + 2 lines below.
Useful for get a content of a file in very huge file to get lines range. To improve performance a while loop breaks from iteration than go for seeking.
I've created a function that read a file and count lines and store into arrays each lines bytes to seek. If maximum specified by `linenum` is set, it will break from while to keep performance than in a new loop function to seek a position in bytes to get a content of file.
function readFileSeek($source, $linenum = 0, $range = 0)
{
$fh = fopen($source, 'r');
$meta = stream_get_meta_data($fh);
if (!$meta['seekable']) {
throw new Exception(sprintf("A source is not seekable: %s", print_r($source, true)));
}
$pos = 2;
$result = null;
if ($linenum) {
$minline = $linenum - $range - 1;
$maxline = $minline+$range+$range;
}
$totalLines = 0;
while (!feof($fh)) {
$char = fgetc($fh);
if ($char == "\n" || $char == "\r") {
++$totalLines;
} else {
$result[$totalLines] = $pos;
}
$pos++;
if ($maxline+1 == $totalLines) {
// break from while to not read entire file
break;
}
}
$buffer = '';
for ($nr=$minline; $nr<=$maxline; $nr++) {
if (isset($result[$nr])) {
fseek($fh, $result[$nr], SEEK_SET);
while (!feof($fh)) {
$char = fgetc($fh);
if ($char == "\n" || $char == "\r") {
$buffer .= $char;
break;
} else {
$buffer .= $char;
}
}
}
}
return $buffer;
}
Test results (1.3 GB file, 100000000 lines of codes, seek to 300000 line a code):
string(55) "299998_abc
299999_abc
300000_abc
300001_abc
300002_abc
"
Time: 612 ms, Memory: 20.00Mb
$ ll -h /tmp/testfile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1,3G /tmp/testfile
