>>>>HI all!!
>>>>
>>>>I wonder if someone has an specific technique to get the number of lines from a text file...
>>>>
>>>>thanks
>>>

>>>create cursor Dummy (TxtFld C (250))
>>>append from TextFile SDF
>>>nLines = Reccount()
>>>

>>

>>Thanks !!
>>Very clever!
>>

>
>Low level file reads might be faster:
>

>LOCAL lnHandle, lnCount
>
>*-----------------------------------------
>*-- Get a file handle
>*-----------------------------------------
>lnhandle = FOPEN("myFile.txt")
>
>*-----------------------------------------
>*-- Move to the first line
>*-----------------------------------------
>=FSEEK(lnhandle, 0, 0)
>
>*-----------------------------------------
>*-- Loop through each line and count
>*-----------------------------------------
>lnCount = 0
>
>DO WHILE !FEOF()
>  lnCount = lnCount + 1
>  =FREAD(lnHandle)
>ENDDO
>
>RETURN lnCount

Yes, I was going to suggest it too. Besides, this is the only way for really big files (more than 16MB).