PHP File: Counting Lines in a File



PHP File Tips - Part 9: Do you want to count number of line of a particular file? You can use little trick. Read the file into array. Than, count number of element of the array. Like this: 
<?php
$f = "test.txt";

// read into array
$arr = file($f);

// count lines
echo "This file have ". sizeof($arr) . " line(s)";

?>


Series this article:
PHP File: 3 Way of Reading File
PHP File: Reading File at Particular Lines
PHP File: Reading File at Particular Byte Ranges
PHP File: Checking File or Directory
PHP File: Showing All File in A Directory
PHP File: Showing All Files and Folders in Particular Directory
PHP File: Retrieving File Statistic
PHP File: Retrieving More File Information
PHP File: Counting Lines in a File
PHP File: Counting Characters and Words in File
PHP File: Writing File
PHP File: Locking and Unlocking File
PHP File: Removing Lines From File
PHP File: Inserting Lines into a File


Tag: file, count Category: PHP Basic Post : April 14th 2008 Read: 2,570 Bookmark and Share

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