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

Novel approach... But mine's less typing. :) never thought of using awk for it though. Good one! :) ---- bruce <bedouglas@earthlink.net> wrote: > 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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php