Re: Reading to end-of-file

[Christoph Mecklenbraeuker]

Hi Eyal, the following code would give you the number of lines in the
file on a UNIX Machine. (Sorry, if you happen to work with a different OS)
Maybe this is of help? I know, this is not really satisfactory, but would
show a way, how to avoid reading beyond the EOF mark of a text-file.

>>     filename = "try.dat";
>>     cmd = sprintf("nl %s | tail -1 | awk - '{print $1;}'",filename);
>>     N = sscanf(system(cmd),"%d");

all the best,
Christoph

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