read lines of file without parsing the lines

[W. Paulisse]

Hello!

Currently i have a logfile which tracks a certain feature on my server.
Every time the feature accurs my script appends a line in the file.

Can i find out how many lines the log file currently contains without
opening the complete file en count every line in a loop?

I want to do this because reading the file every time can take a long time.
the log file is emptied every week but on the end of the week the file
contains more than 20.000 lines.

Thanks in Afvance
W. Paulisse

[Savut]

I dont know any function doing this in fast way. But If you want something
simple, check how I do it :

$file = file("file.txt");
$numLine = count($file);

Savut

"W. Paulisse" <ihate@spam.nl> wrote in message
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> Hello!
>
> Currently i have a logfile which tracks a certain feature on my server.
> Every time the feature accurs my script appends a line in the file.
>
> Can i find out how many lines the log file currently contains without
> opening the complete file en count every line in a loop?
>
> I want to do this because reading the file every time can take a long

time.

> the log file is emptied every week but on the end of the week the file
> contains more than 20.000 lines.
>
> Thanks in Afvance
> W. Paulisse
>
>

[CountScubula]

Super simple way is to pad every line with spaces so each line is always the
same length
then lines = file size / (line lenght +1 )
the +1 is for the new line chr \n or +2 on windows \r\n

--
Mike Bradley
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"W. Paulisse" <ihate@spam.nl> wrote in message
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> Hello!
>
> Currently i have a logfile which tracks a certain feature on my server.
> Every time the feature accurs my script appends a line in the file.
>
> Can i find out how many lines the log file currently contains without
> opening the complete file en count every line in a loop?
>
> I want to do this because reading the file every time can take a long

time.

> the log file is emptied every week but on the end of the week the file
> contains more than 20.000 lines.
>
> Thanks in Afvance
> W. Paulisse
>
>

[thunder]

"W. Paulisse" <ihate@spam.nl> wrote in message
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> Hello!

> Can i find out how many lines the log file currently contains without
> opening the complete file en count every line in a loop?

If your server OS is a *nix variant, you might like to try this:

$numlines = intval(`wc -l /path/to/logfile`);

> W. Paulisse

Cheers,
thunder