Get Line Count from a File

[Brian Simmons]

Hi All,

I'm hoping there's a quick and easy to accomplish this:
I've got a CSV file (each row represents a record, and is followed by a
NewLine).
Is there any way (short of counting the NewLine's) to get a Line Count of
the file.

I've got a quick & dirty utility that I wrote for a client, and right now,
they run the utility and it checks for the existence of the CSV file. If
it's found they get a messagebox like
"File exists, task needs to be run"
I would like in addition for checking for the file's existence, get the line
count and present a message like:
"File exists, task needs to be run, and there are XX records to process"

Thanks,
Brian

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

On Oct 5, 4:06 pm, "Brian Simmons" <[e-mail]:

I'm hoping there's a quick and easy to accomplish this:
I've got a CSV file (each row represents a record, and is followed by a
NewLine).
Is there any way (short of counting the NewLine's) to get a Line Count of
the file.

Well, I wouldn't count the newlines by hand. I'd either call
TextReader.ReadAllLines and return the length of the array, or (if I
thought the file might be largish) keep a count and call ReadLine
until it returned null.

Jon

[Brian Simmons]

Perfect Jon, works like a charm. Thanks!

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.comwrote in message
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On Oct 5, 4:06 pm, "Brian Simmons" <[e-mail]:

>I'm hoping there's a quick and easy to accomplish this:
I've got a CSV file (each row represents a record, and is followed by a
NewLine).
Is there any way (short of counting the NewLine's) to get a Line Count of
the file.

Well, I wouldn't count the newlines by hand. I'd either call
TextReader.ReadAllLines and return the length of the array, or (if I
thought the file might be largish) keep a count and call ReadLine
until it returned null.

Jon