Re: Re: File size limits in textread()?

[koufalas]

Thanks Keith & Dmitri,

I'll give those ideas a try.

In my case, I could probably get the size of the file from a database query, 
but it's more or less the same thing to use "wc -l file" on the query output.

Cheers,
Paul.


> 
> From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <address@hidden>
> Date: 10/06/2005 14:55:37
> To: Keith Goodman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: File size limits in textread()?
> 
> Keith Goodman wrote:
> 
> >>...
> >>varargout{10} = cell(6000,1);
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > I guess we don't know ahead of time that there are 6000 rows. Is there
> > a very fast way to count the number of rows?
> 
> It is a dirty hack, but str = system("wc -l filename") kind of works.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dmitri.
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