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How to read specific lines from a text file in PHP

I have a txt file which has a lot of lines and the values in every line are separated with commas.

I want to read the 1st line alone which I did already using fgets :

$head = fgets(fopen($file, 'r'));
$headValues = explode(',', $head);

but now I want to read every other line from line 2 until the end of file and put those values into an array.

I searched for similar solutions but couldn't find any

Solution

  • Just use descriptor

    $fd = fopen($file, 'r');
$head = fgets($fd);
$headValues = explode(',', $head);
$data = [];

while(($str = fgets($fd)) !== false) {
  $otherValues = explode(',', $str); 
  $data[] = $otherValues;
}