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nertlab/file-read
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Reading Files

1.0.0(7y ago)18MITPHP

Since Mar 18Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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Read Text Files - FileRead Packagist
====================================

[](#read-text-files---fileread-packagist)

This package helps to convert any text file to array. So it is makes life easier to read the file in array format.

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

where ever you need to read the file just adding the path of the text file as follow. usually people put their files on storage directory of laravel

```
use Nertlab\FileRead\FileProcessor\Read;

$contents = (new Read())->readFile(storage_path('app/myFile.txt'));
```

By default we are set delimiters of line are `\n` and word delimiter as`\t`you can by pass this as follow

```
use Nertlab\FileRead\FileProcessor\Read;

$contents = (new Read())->readFile(storage_path('app/myFile.txt'), "\n", "\t");
```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2614d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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