Adrian Teasdale wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> We have a text file that is 2.2gb in size that we are trying to parse
> using PHP to put the content into a mysql database. This file
> contains 40 million individual lines of data.  Basically PHP isn't
> parsing it. Any suggestions of how we could do this?   
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ade

Use split to break the file down into parts of manageable size, and then
process those.

split -b nM <filename> (where n is the number of Megs you wish each part
to be).

man split

HTH.

Pablo

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