Re^2: Count number of lines in a text file

[Anonymous Monk]

what about my($NumLines)=scalar <$Filename>

[JavaFan]

That only works if the current line just happens to contain a number which equals the number of lines. <> in scalar context just reads a single line.

But this works:

perl -wE'say~~(()=<>)' yourfile

[BrowserUk]

But this works:

So does this--but efficiently enough tha you can use it on huge files:)

c:\test>perl -ne"}{print$." junk.out
20000001

It actually beats wc -l on my system.