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]
