Hi Ashley,
One thing you could try is putting non-ASCII characters in the
file, i.e. above 0x7f.
I haven't played with PHP, but in python, if you are using
ASCII encoding for text strings and try to load a non-ASCII
character into a string, an exception is raised.
Better still, tell PHP you are using UTF-8 encoding for
Unicode characters and then stuff in some badly formed
UTF-8 characters. Some random bytes ought to do it, as UTF-8
is fairly strict.
Let us know how you go. Text encoding and decoding has always
been a PITA.
cheers
rickw
Ashley Maher wrote:
Morning,
Posting here as the coders list is now dead.
Using php in a web app.
Reading in a large text file.
Using fgets to read line by line for processing.
What can I put in a test text file to get fgets to fail?
Can hand indicate the condition fail but would like to trigger a "real" read
failure well into the file. A lot of references about testing for failure but nothing how
to trigger fgets to fail.
Thanks for any hints.
Regards,
Ashley
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