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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:46 PM
To: Frank J. Schima
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Getting line count of a text file
On 9/12/07, Frank J. Schima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)
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