Count textlines

[Anon]

Hello,

i want to count the number of lines in a text-file, for example; if the text-file contains 214 lines, then the number 214 should show (echo) in the webbrowser.

Could someone please type the simple code for this to work? 'Cause i didn't make it work myself.

[kailien]

Don't know about php script, but you could use "wc" in bash to could lines in a text file. For example:

wc -l filename.txt > num

You have to use exec() in php.

Another solution, you may can parse it as an array with /n (new line) as the delimiter. Then, sizeof() of count() to get the number.

Disclaimer, both methods are work arounds. There probably is a better way of doing this.

just my 0.02

Kai

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The simplest way is probaly this:
echo count(file("filename.txt"));

Note: this reads the entire file. This is EXPENSIVE (slow) so DON'T do it often.
(if you are counting a 14MB file, PHP will read all 14M😎

If you want to display this data often, use a database to store the filename and file-length.