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Re: [MacPerl] Counting the number of lines in a document
- To: mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch
- Subject: Re: [MacPerl] Counting the number of lines in a document
- From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:34:08 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: ICE Engineering, Inc.
In Regards to your letter <199604241556.RAA13758@yggdrasil.ethz.ch>:
> If you need to perform other operations on the file, it's probably
> easiest to use the value of $. after processing the file. Otherwise,
> do something like:
>
> undef $/;
>
> $f = <>;
>
> $count = ($f =~ tr/\n//);
Or:
@f = <>;
$count = $#f + 1;
tim.
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