RE: reading data from ascii files.

[Allen.Windhorn]

Andy,

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Buckle [mailto:address@hidden 

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Claudio Belotti
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 Siep Kroonenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Couldn't you just read and count all lines without parsing?
>>
>> or you can call
>> wc -l filename
>> via system() and parse the output

>Quote from first email...
>
> "PS: Please don't consider calling any linux functions, because
> i am limited to a WinXP as OS. Sorry!"

wc.exe is available for Windows systems.  Unfortunately the site
that normally has it <unxutils.sourceforge.net> seems to be down.
I can send you my copy (1996) if you want.

Regards,
Allen