Fastest Solution to Count Number of Lines Inside a File
Here is another PERL stuff to share.
Many systems have a wc program to count lines in a file:
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$count = `wc -l < $file`;
die "wc failed: $?" if $?;
chomp($count);
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You could also open the file and read line-by-line until the end, counting lines as you go:
open(FILE, "< $file") or die "can't open $file: $!";
$count++ while
# $count now holds the number of lines read
Here’s the fastest solution, assuming your line terminator really is “\n”:
$count += tr/\n/\n/ while sysread(FILE, $_, 2 ** 16);
Enjoy PERL. Enjoy Programming.