Hi!

I have a 1.2GB file that contains a one line string. What I need is to search the entire file to find the position of an another string (currently I have a list of strings to search). The way what I'm doing it now is opening the big file and move a pointer throught 4Kb blocks, then moving the pointer X positions back in the file and get 4Kb more.

My problem is that a bigger string to search, a bigger time he take to got it.

Can you give me some ideas to optimize the script to get better search times?

this is my implementation:

function busca($inici){
        $limit = 4096;

        $big_one    = fopen('big_one.txt','r');
        $options    = fopen('options.txt','r');

        while(!feof($options)){
            $search = trim(fgets($options));
            $retro  = strlen($search);//maybe setting this position absolute? (like 12 or 15)

            $punter = 0;
            while(!feof($big_one)){
                $ara = fgets($big_one,$limit);

                $pos = strpos($ara,$search);
                $ok_pos = $pos + $punter;

                if($pos !== false){
                    echo "$pos - $punter - $search : $ok_pos <br>";
                    break;
                }

                $punter += $limit - $retro;
                fseek($big_one,$punter);
            }
            fseek($big_one,0);
        }
    }

Thanks in advance!