Re: feature request

$wc = strlen(preg_replace('/\W*\w*/', 'x', file_get_contents($file)); Look, no arrays! :-) - Stig On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 20:20, Nikolai Devereaux wrote: > It would be great if there was a function in the filesystem family similar > to the unix command "wc". It'd be nice to not have to write simple wrappers > around system calls or creating arrays to get the number of words or lines > in a file. > > For example, to get the number of lines in a file, I have to do this: > > // bash specific solution > function lines($filename) > { > $wc = bash -c 'wc -l $filename 2>&1'; > return (preg_match("|^\s+(\d+)\s+$filename\s*$|", $wc, $matches)? > $matches[1] : 0; > } > > or this: > // generic solution (w/o error checks): > function lines($filename) > { > return count(file($filename)); > } > > > Take care, > > Nik > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php