Re: Getting line count of a text file

On 9/12/07, Frank J. Schima <fjs@foraker.com> wrote: > In PHP 5, I'm counting the number of lines in a text file using the > following code: > $myfile = file ( '/path/to/myfile.txt'); > $count = count ($myfile); > > However, sometimes it fails with the following error: > PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of xxxx bytes exhausted (tried > to allocate 35 bytes) in /path/to/myprogram.php on line 16 > > Line 16 is the first line above. > > I'm sure there is a better - more memory efficient - way to do this. > Any suggestions? it's sloppy but you could use system("wc -l $file") and grab the first part before the space (doesn't seem to be an option to NOT display the filename again)