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Read a File Line by Line in PHP

Use SplFileObject to iterate a file lazily without loading it all into RAM.

Author: chris

// Language: PHP

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

$file = new SplFileObject('data.txt');
$file->setFlags(SplFileObject::DROP_NEW_LINE | SplFileObject::SKIP_EMPTY);

foreach ($file as $line) {
    echo $line, PHP_EOL;
}