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Re: Number of line in a text file
Posted:
Jan 23, 2013 1:51 PM
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On Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:04:19 AM UTC+13, dpb wrote:
> On 1/23/2013 1:34 AM, leeward.xie@gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Thursday, November 2, 2006 2:26:12 AM UTC+8, Beno�t Valley wrote:
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> >> I need to determine the number of line in a text file.
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> >> Is there a more efficient way that using getl in a while loop ?
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> >> Thanks,
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> >> Beno�t
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> > nrows = numel(cell2mat(textscan(fid,'%1c%*[^\n]')))
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> If going to do that, would be faster to use a stream form and fread().
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> I've not timed it but if going to go text route here's where textread()
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> a) not require separate fopen() and
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> b) returns an array instead of cell so can skip the cell2mat()
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Another solution is to use Perl which is packaged with Matlab:
Put these two lines in a file called countlines.pl
while (<>) {};
print $.,"\n";
Now:
perl 'countlines.pl' 'myfile.txt'
or
nlines=perl('countlines.pl','myfile.txt')
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