>>>If you know the length of the record (which you should) take the size of the incoming file and divide it by the record length. This will give you # of records.
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>>All lines have a different length. :(
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>you could transfer the file to a memo and count the line feeds using OCCURS() and the right CHR() combination.

This is another possibility but I like Winfried's solution because it involves only one line.