[SOLVED] reading from file - just a little help

[Eris]

i need to read only n-th line from a large file, n is given. what's the fastest way to do that?

[Bauer418]

Probably:

$data = file('file.txt');
print $data[$n - 1];

file() creates an array with a new element for each line.  I'd be curious to see if there's a better way.  If you know the length of each line, you could combine fopen, fseek, and fread.

[Eris]

lines have different length and the file's very big. i was thinking about reaching the required line with fgets(), but maybe there's a better way?

[Eris]

Ok, i assume there is no better way. thanks anyway Bauer418