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How cam I sort the contents of a file using PHP?

Aug 5th, 1999 11:49
Paul DuBois, Nathan Wallace,

You could use a system call:

    exec("sort -o db.txt db.txt");

or you can do the whole thing in PHP using:

    $db = file("db.txt");
    sort($db);
    $dbh = fopen("db.txt","w") || die("couldn't open");
    fwrite($dbh,implode($db,"\n");

Probably what you really want though is a database, especially if the
files will be large.