how to count amount of email addresses in file?

[step]

Hi there,

I was wondering if anyone has ideas how to count an amount of e-mail addys in a plain textfile. On one of my servers I"m using this :

<?php
$amount = exec("wc -l /home/3amp/brizis.list");
echo ereg_replace( " /home/3amp/brizis.list", " ", $amount);
?> subscribers on your list.<br>

However, I now need to do the same on a server that does not seem to have 'wc' installed...

Any tips/ideas?

Thanks,

Stepan

[bivolbg]

why dont't you try
$wc =exec( "wc --version");
$wc_ok = eregi("PURPOSE",$wc);
if($wc_ok) echo "ok";

[step]

because as I said - there is no 'wc' installed on that system...and I need to count the amount of emails in that file using another way.... looking at the code you wrote down - if I'm not mistaken - will check if 'wc' is installed and if so, it will run whatever I tell it to... correct? Hmm that still doesn't solve my problem 🙁

stepan

[VaTech]

Can you count the number of @ symbols to get the count?

[step]

That would actually be the best solution - to count the @, as the wc -l or wc -w counts lines and words and people do make mistakes 🙂

But how would I do that? (count the @)

stepan

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VaTech 's idea implemented :

<?php
$cont = join('', file('mail.txt'));
print  substr_count($cont, '@');
?>