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November 8th, 2003, 03:16 PM

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counting lines

Can some one give me a sample on how to count lines in a txt file.. or etc

November 8th, 2003, 03:45 PM

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never mind i got it working using some php skils =)
sort off ... anyways check it

Code:

fopen  =  open("1.txt", "r")
read   =  fopen.read()
count  = 0

for enter in read:
 if enter == "\n":
  count = count + 1
  
print count

is this the best way to do it.. or is there a better way?

November 8th, 2003, 06:19 PM

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As with most things, Python makes it very easy, not too mention quite attractive.. all you need to do this is these 15 lines of code, oh wait, this is only one line

Code:

count = len(file('file.txt', 'r').readlines())

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November 8th, 2003, 06:38 PM

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Oh while i think about it heres another ways too do this (although id recommend the first one), i've included this one because it demenstrates the use of the string types count(string) method (which can be pretty useful sometimes!)

Code:

count = file('file.txt', 'r').read().count('\n')

Note: this may not always return the same as the first example since example one counts the number of lines while this one counts the number of '\n' in the file.

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November 9th, 2003, 07:34 AM

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hey thanx =)

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