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RE: [PHP3] $scalar = include(text.inc)? From: Tommy Williams (Tommy.Williams <email protected>)
Date: 01/25/99

On Monday, January 25, 1999, 11:13 AM -0600 Richard Lynch
<lynch <email protected>> wrote:

> Okay, so use readfile().

Because it doesn't do what the original poster asked.

He wanted to read a file into a string. readfile() outputs the file to
stdout and returns the number of bytes read, so that $scalar =
readfile('text.inc') would end up with the size of the file 'text.inc' in
$scalar rather than its contents.

--
Tommy Williams
<mailto:Tommy.Williams <email protected>>
  <URL:http://www.mc.Vanderbilt.Edu/~tommy/>

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