Number of lines in a file

Is there a method that returns the number of lines in a text file? I'm trying to make an array of arrays, with each inner array holding 4 strings from 4 consecutive lines from a file, and the outer array holding every one of those arrays that are possible in the file. I can't anticipate the amount of 4-line blocks im going to have tho, so i need something that returns the number of lines available and divides that by four. I'll then populate the outer array by looping that many times. If any of that made sense...

Is there a method that returns the number of lines in
a text file? I'm trying to make an array of arrays,
with each inner array holding 4 strings from 4
consecutive lines from a file, and the outer array
holding every one of those arrays that are possible
in the file. I can't anticipate the amount of 4-line
blocks im going to have tho, so i need something that
returns the number of lines available and divides
that by four. I'll then populate the outer array by
looping that many times. If any of that made sense...You would do better to use java.util.List implementations such as ArrayList and LinkedList then you don't need to know the number of lines.

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Well, if you know how to read one line with a Buffered reader, and you know how to keep reading lines until you run out, then all you have to to is initialize a counter to zero before you start reading, add 1 to it each time you read a line, and then examine its value when you're done.
Try that, and post again if you get stuck.
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How to get the number of lines of a file?

Folks:
Is there a way to get the number of lines of a text file? I don't know if there is an existing method to do that.
Thanks a lot.

HI
I found some solution
other than increment loop and all
here is the code it might helpful to u
//returns the number of lines in a file
//author : Ravindra S
//Symphony software Hyderabad
try
RandomAccessFile randFile = new RandomAccessFile(csvFile,"r");
long lastRec=randFile.length();
randFile.close();
FileReader fileRead = new FileReader(csvFile);
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Determining number of lines in a File without loading it to memory

hello guys,
I'm just wondering if there is a way to know the number of lines in a file without having to load the file entirely into memory and count the lines.
in my project i have a restriction that says that i'm not allowed to load into memory more than 10 KB. i have to read the file block by block, say ten lines at a time.
I actually did the second point which is reading the file 10 lines at a time, but still the total number of lines is still hard coded.
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I

ralfph wrote:
hello guys,
I'm just wondering if there is a way to know the number of lines in a file without having to load the file entirely into memory and count the lines.
in my project i have a restriction that says that i'm not allowed to load into memory more than 10 KB. i have to read the file block by block, say ten lines at a time.
I actually did the second point which is reading the file 10 lines at a time, but still the total number of lines is still hard coded.
thank you for your help !
ISo just read a line at a time, increase a counter, and don't save the line. As long as no one line is longer than 10 kB, you're fine.
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Count the number of lines in each file in a directory

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I would like to count the number of lines for each file in my directory and subdirectories.
I wonder how can I count the lines of the specified files?
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Ok so one more question.
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How do you find the number of lines in a file?

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That depends. How do you define a line? Is it a specific number of
characters, a String that's terminated by a newline character or some
combination thereof?

(SOLVED) How to automagically add X number of line to new file in vim?

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Moving and Organizing files based on number of lines

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I have a directory containing nearly 1500 files, some of which are composed of 12 lines, some of which are composed of 4 lines, all of which are .phy (PHYLIP) files, which can be viewed within notepad/wordpad like text files.
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Counting number of lines in a text/csv file using xquery/xslt.

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I have a CSV file, I need to count the total number of lines in that file. This I have to use in OSB. My requirement is I have to count total no of lines in the $body file (CSV/flat file) and subtract header and footer lines from it.
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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/doc.1111/e15866/part_fb.htm
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<Root>
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then
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Can someone tell me, if there is a way to find out the number of lines in an input file. I do not want to read line by line and then count the number of lines read.

Then how do you think a program could determine the amount of lines in an input file? How does a human know how many lines are on a page? You're going to have to count the items that separate two lines to know how many lines are in your file.
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How to resrict number of line items in IDOC Payment file

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Execute transaction code WE20 and open up the "Partner Type B - i.e. Bank". Select the bank in question. To the right of the screen, you would see 3 different sections. You are interested in the middle section "Outbound parmtrs.". Highlight the "Message type" (e.g. COSMAS - Master cost center) you want to reduce the size and click on the "Display" icon just underneath it. In the "Outbound Options" tab, change the "PacketSize" to 6 and save your entries.
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File splitter by number of lines

hey
i have a text file with 10000 records. i need to read the file and pass parameters which is the number of records. so eventually new files have to be created with that number of records inside each file.
pls help me out in doin this.
PraDz

let me explain in brief
i have a file name test.txt [10000 records]
a. have to read this file
b. specify the number_of_lines to be written
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PraDzLooks like you've got an algorithm ready to go. Now all you have to do is:
1) Learn how to access command line arguments in your Java program.
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