Yes, but how horrible! Thx James.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kipp, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:17 PM Subject: RE: line count > The cookbook recipe here seems to be the quickest: > $count += tr/\n/\n/ while sysread(FILE, $_, 2 ** 16); #assumes line > terminator is "\n" > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:12 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: line count > > > > > > Christophe > > > > Jenda's quite right - you have to count them. The reason > > being that the > > number of lines in a file is essentially the number of line terminator > > characters in it. You can't count these without reading the > > whole file in > > some way. > > > > HTH > > > > Rob > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "folschette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:55 PM > > Subject: line count > > > > > > > hello, > > > is there a veriable holding the total amount of lines of a > > specific file ? > > > or do I have to count the lines in a loop? > > > > > > christophe folschette > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
