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]
