RE: [PHP] Getting line count of a text file

hey... if you're going to do the system approach, go ahead and use awk/cut... wc -l foo.txt | awk -F' ' '{print $1}' should work assuming you're on linux..... -----Original Message----- From: mike [mailto:mike503@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:46 PM To: Frank J. Schima Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] 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) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php