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bzread

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.3, PHP 5, PECL bz2:1.0)

bzreadBinary safe bzip2 file read

Description

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

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.

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)) {
  
$decompressed_file .= bzread($bz4096);
}
bzclose($bz);

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

?>



add a note add a note User Contributed Notes
bzread
bitlz at mail dot ru
05-Aug-2004 05:02
max value of length is 8192 (2^13).
if length is more than 8192 bzread understand as 8192. :)

ps. php 5.0.0 under win2k sp4.

bzwrite> <bzopen
Last updated: Fri, 05 Sep 2008
 
 
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