Re: Getting line count of a text file

Frank J. Schima wrote:

Hi all, 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? Thanks! Frank Schima Foraker Design <http://www.foraker.com>

echo intval(str_replace(' '.$file, '', trim(system('wc -l '.$file)))); -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare