Re: [PHP] Handling (very) large files with PHP

2009-03-11 Thread Stuart
2009/3/11 דניאל דנון danondan...@gmail.com *Handling (very) large files with PHP* Hello, I am planning a project in PHP, and I have few unsolved issues that I'd like you to help me... The project will start by loading a file of about 50GB. The file has a many objects with a pattern

Re: [PHP] Handling (very) large files with PHP

2009-03-11 Thread דניאל דנון
Hello all and thank for the answers. Just to clarify I don't know C yet, so I hope I wont have to learn C to do it. But about the insertions - Yes, I'll probably use Perl if you say its fastest. Since the insertion will probably happen once or once a month, I don't mind if it will take even a

Re: [PHP] Handling (very) large files with PHP

2009-03-11 Thread Virgilio Quilario
*Handling (very) large files with PHP* Hello, I am planning a project in PHP, and I have few unsolved issues that I'd like you to help me... The project will start by loading a file of about 50GB. The file has a many objects with a pattern, for example, Name: Joe Joe likes to eat

Re: [PHP] Handling (very) large files with PHP

2009-03-11 Thread Mattias Thorslund
דניאל דנון wrote: And you got a point - I don't know all the queries I'll run yet, but I'll probably do them with Perl. From what you described, it doesn't sound overly complicated to do in PHP either. If you are more familiar with PHP, it will probably take you less time to code it that

[PHP] Handling (very) large files with PHP

2009-03-10 Thread דניאל דנון
*Handling (very) large files with PHP* Hello, I am planning a project in PHP, and I have few unsolved issues that I'd like you to help me... The project will start by loading a file of about 50GB. The file has a many objects with a pattern, for example, Name: Joe Joe likes to eat

Re: [PHP] Handling (very) large files with PHP

2009-03-10 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:04:19AM +0200, ?? wrote: *Handling (very) large files with PHP* Hello, I am planning a project in PHP, and I have few unsolved issues that I'd like you to help me... The project will start by loading a file of about 50GB. The file has a many

Re: [PHP] Handling (very) large files with PHP

2009-03-10 Thread Chris
Anyway, so, I am going to convert it into a database, and I insist on using PHP for this. Wrong answer. Use the right tool for the job. I don't think php is it. Personally I'd go for perl for doing this. It's much better (IMO) at text processing, especially large files. As long as you know