I’m trying to find out the length of a file using eof and filePos together, but it’s giving me completely incorrect results. Up until now I’d just been using readLine to read through every single line until reaching the end, but I figured using filePos would be much faster.
openedOBJ = openFile "C:\myFile.obj" mode:"r"
seek openedOBJ #eof
lengthOfFile = filePos openedOBJ
flush openedOBJ ; close openedOBJ
Am I misunderstanding how the function is used?
Edit: Just figured it out. filePos get the current character, not the current file line.
Is there a good way to get the last line number in a file (without iterating through it via readLine) ?
if you are looking for the number of lines:
((dotnetclass "System.IO.File").ReadAllLines file).count
but it will eat the memory
ss = openfile file
count = 0
while not eof ss do
(
readline ss
count += 1
)
count
it can be more memory friendly
Yea I’d been doing that second method so far, just looking for quicker ways to get the info. Will try the first method. Thanks
the best method depends on of the file size… very big file with ReadAllLines will take a lot of memory and will not be read quickly
i guess that the solution with .net StreamReader would be the best