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Re: Determining length of a text file? [message #40888] Sat, 11 September 2004 20:05 Go to next message
pestMay is currently offline  pestMay
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In IDL v6.1:

n_lines = File_lines(filename)

does what you need.

Ed May

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Re: Determining length of a text file? [message #41008 is a reply to message #40888] Thu, 16 September 2004 16:30 Go to previous message
lingfeng.wen is currently offline  lingfeng.wen
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pestMay@gmail.com wrote in message news:<U1P0d.18575$H83.10215@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>...
> In IDL v6.1:
>
> n_lines = File_lines(filename)
>
> does what you need.
>
> Ed May

In regard of the old verion of IDL, you can try the 'readf' with loop
until EOF so that you can obtain the exact the line number.

Robin

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