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Alphabetize lines of a text file

This code reads all the lines in a text file then alphabetizes it and overwrites the file with the alphabetized version

Submitted By: Dezmond
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Views: 249

Language: PHP
Last Modified: March 25, 2008
Instructions: Just replace XXX with path to text file

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  1. $fh = fopen("XXX", 'r');
  2. $i = 0;
  3. flock($fh, LOCK_SH);
  4. while (!feof($fh)) {
  5.         $data = fgets($fh, 500);
  6.         $array[$i] = $data;
  7.         $i++;
  8. }
  9. flock($fh, LOCK_UN);
  10. fclose($fh);
  11.        
  12. sort($array);
  13. $count = count($array);
  14.        
  15. $gamelist = fopen("XXX", 'w');
  16. flock($gamelist, LOCK_EX);
  17. for($i = 0; $i <= $count; $i++) {
  18.         fwrite($fh, $array[$i]);
  19. }
  20. flock($fh, LOCK_UN);
  21. fclose($fh);

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Dezmond 2008-04-04 22:10:58

Well Dezmond, I would like to say that this is, quite possible the best thing ever...

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