On 2017-04-21 11:27, Gianni Turri wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 17:02:23 +0200, Gianni Turri <giannit62@gmail.com>

> wrote:

>

>> On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:44:34 -0400,

>> mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

>>

>>> VF9SP2

>>>

>>> Currently, I'm simply doing this for now:

>>>

>>> RowCount = OCCURS(CHR(13),FILETOSTR(m.Filename))

>>>

>>> Is there a better (read: FASTER) way? These are tab delimited text

>>> files so I can't really use FSEEK or FSIZE(m.Filename) (which

>>> requires

>>> SET COMPATIBLE ON) because I can't be sure of each record's length.

>>

>> Hi Mike,

>>

>> I have never used fsize this way, I always use fseek to calculate

>> files size.

>>

>> m.handle = fopen(m.Filename, 0)

>> m.size = fseek(m.handle, 0, 2)

>> fclose(m.handle)

>>

>> To answer your question, try this:

>>

>> create cursor TMP_CURSOR (DUMMY Character (1))

>>

>> append from (m.Filename) sdf

>>

>> m.RowCount = reccount() +1

>>

>> USE in TMP_CURSOR

>>

>> ? m.RowCount

>

> May be you must use only reccount() instead of reccount() +1.

Ok now I get your approach. Cool trick. I tried it. In testing, it

actually wasn't any faster than the OCCURS approach. But thanks for the

response though!

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