>>Hey Gang...
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>>Any quick way to Count the number of Lines in a Text File?
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>>I have some data coming in a delimited textfile. Each line represents a normal record.
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>>What I did was to open the file, and loop through each line of data and keep track of how many times this was done until I reach the end of the file.... like this...
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>>*Count the number of records in the file...
>>     lnNumOfRecords = 0
>>     DO WHILE !FEOF(lnHandle)
>>          lcText = ALLTRIM(FGETS(lnHandle))
>>          lnNumOfRecords = lnNumOfRecords + 1
>>     ENDDO
>>     filetop  = FSEEK(lnHandle, 0)				&& Move pointer to BOF
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>>

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>>Kinda slow with a LARGE file....
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>>I needed to know how many lines, because with this known, I can then use this info in a Thermometer when I REALLY process the text file.
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>Maybe you don't need to count lines at all. You can count bytes - use fSeek() to get the current position, you know the total length of the file, and there you are.
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>Also, if your file generally has less than 65000 lines (seeing that you are using VFP8), you can simply
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>nLines=alines(aRows, filetostr(lcYourFileName))
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>OTOH, if your file has more records but you can be sure that no record is longer than 255 bytes,
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>create cursor crsRows (cLine c(254))
>append from (lcYourFileName) type SDF
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>and then you just scan through this cursor, and chop cRow just like you'd do with lcText above. If your lines are longer, then
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>create cursor crsRows (cLine1 c(250), cLine2 c(250), cLine3 c(250), ...)
>append from (lcYourFileName) type SDF
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>and then your lcText=trim(cLine1+cline2+cline3+...) for each record.

Thanks for the help !!