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Binary safe bzip2 file read

Bzip2 Functions

bzread

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)

bzread — Binary safe bzip2 file read

Description

string bzread ( resource $bz [, int $length = 1024 ] )

bzread() reads from the given bzip2 file pointer.

Reading stops when length (uncompressed) bytes have been read or EOF is reached, whichever comes first.

Parameters

bz: The file pointer. It must be valid and must point to a file successfully opened by bzopen().
length: If not specified, bzread() will read 1024 (uncompressed) bytes at a time. A maximum of 8192 uncompressed bytes will be read at a time.

Return Values

Returns the uncompressed data, or FALSE on error.

Examples

Example #1 bzread() example

 <?php

$file = "/tmp/foo.bz2";
$bz = bzopen($file, "r") or die("Couldn't open $file");

$decompressed_file = '';
while (!feof($bz)) {
  $decompressed_file .= bzread($bz, 4096);
}
bzclose($bz);

echo "The contents of $file are: <br />\n";
echo $decompressed_file;

?>

See Also

bzwrite() - Binary safe bzip2 file write
feof() - Tests for end-of-file on a file pointer
bzopen() - Opens a bzip2 compressed file

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