Getting the Number of Lines in a File : count « Data Structure « PHP






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Getting the Number of Lines in a File

 
<?php

  $afile = "data.txt";

  if (file_exists ($afile)){

    $rows = file ($afile);

    echo count ($rows) . " lines in this file"; //Outputs 4 in this case
  } else {
    echo "Sorry, file does not exist.";
  }
  
?>








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