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bzread

Binary safe bzip2 file read (PHP 4 >= 4.3.3, PHP 5, PECL bz2:1.0)
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 362. bzread() example

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<?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;



?>

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