Re: Counting Lines

$doc = file("doc.txt"); $myLines = count($doc); sizeof() is an alias of count(); The idea behind this is to read the file. The file() functions reads it into an array exploding the file with the \n (new line) syntax. You can then count the number of lines. If you want to use fopen, $fp = fopen("doc.txt", "r"); while (!feof($fp)){ $contents = fread($fp, 4096); } fclose($contents); $contents = explode("\n", $contents); $myLines = count($contents); Remember to put in error checking - this is important. If it's local to your machine use the full path from the server root as its faster than grabbing it by a url. If you want a lot of file info and fancy using the linux command "wc" try this: $lines =explode(" ",shell_exec("wc -l -m -c -L -w index.php")); foreach ($lines as $line){ if ($line){ echo "$line\n"; } } jimbob "Aris Santillan" <aris@femalenetwork.com> wrote in message news:831411C4CBD37C4A91DBEC9B98A64C8B6C42AB@spmail.summitmedia.com.ph... Hi Guys! im new to php i want to count the # of line of the certain document and forward the value to a variable? how can i do it? thanks