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Topic: Number of line in a text file
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Kirill

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Re: Number of line in a text file
Posted: Nov 1, 2006 11:22 PM
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You will need to read it anyway so the only resort is to reduce
function call overhead: reading it by bug chunks, 10th or 100ths
megabytes, will be much faster.
Kirill

Benoît Valley wrote:
> I need to determine the number of line in a text file.
>
> Is there a more efficient way that using getl in a while loop ?
>
> Thanks,
> Benoît

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