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2017-04-21 09:44mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
2017-04-21 09:47Richard Kaye : RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
2017-04-21 10:02Gianni Turri : Re: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
2017-04-21 10:20mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com: RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
2017-04-21 10:24Richard Kaye : RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
2017-04-21 10:27Gianni Turri : Re: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
2017-04-21 13:34mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com: Re: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
2017-04-21 13:56Richard Kaye : RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
2017-04-21 15:37mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com: RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
2017-04-21 15:41Richard Kaye : RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?
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Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?

Author: mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com

Posted: 2017-04-21 09:44:34   Link

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.

tia,

--Mike

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RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?

Author: Richard Kaye

Posted: 2017-04-21 09:47:35   Link

ALINES()?

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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.

tia,

--Mike

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Re: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?

Author: Gianni Turri

Posted: 2017-04-21 10:02:23   Link

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

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RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?

Author: mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com

Posted: 2017-04-21 10:20:05   Link

On 2017-04-21 10:47, Richard Kaye wrote:

> ALINES()?

Is that your answer for everything today? lol

Nah, that feels no less dirty than my approach. My bet is that would

require as many (if not more) processing cycles, but of course only

testing would show conclusively if at all.

Thanks though!

--Mike

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RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?

Author: Richard Kaye

Posted: 2017-04-21 10:24:08   Link

Only when it fits the situation. :-)

Dirty? Really? One line of code returns the number of rows in your string. Which was your original question.

Benchmark it and you'll find out which one is faster and whether or not you can live with that slightly soiled sensations... ;-)

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On 2017-04-21 10:47, Richard Kaye wrote:

> ALINES()?

Is that your answer for everything today? lol

Nah, that feels no less dirty than my approach. My bet is that would

require as many (if not more) processing cycles, but of course only

testing would show conclusively if at all.

Thanks though!

--Mike

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Re: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?

Author: Gianni Turri

Posted: 2017-04-21 10:27:37   Link

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.

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Re: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?

Author: mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com

Posted: 2017-04-21 13:34:18   Link

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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RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?

Author: Richard Kaye

Posted: 2017-04-21 13:56:40   Link

Did you benchmark with ALINES? :-)

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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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RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?

Author: mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com

Posted: 2017-04-21 15:37:37   Link

On 2017-04-21 11:24, Richard Kaye wrote:

> Only when it fits the situation. :-)

>

> Dirty? Really? One line of code returns the number of rows in your

> string. Which was your original question.

My solution was 1 line too: RowCount =

OCCURS(CHR(13),FILETOSTR(m.Filename)) <g>

>

> Benchmark it and you'll find out which one is faster and whether or

> not you can live with that slightly soiled sensations... ;-)

Testing showed these two pretty much a dead heat:

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

RowCount = ALINES(aCrap,FILETOSTR(m.Filename))

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RE: Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach?

Author: Richard Kaye

Posted: 2017-04-21 15:41:26   Link

Thanks. I was curious. :-)

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On 2017-04-21 11:24, Richard Kaye wrote:

> Only when it fits the situation. :-)

>

> Dirty? Really? One line of code returns the number of rows in your

> string. Which was your original question.

My solution was 1 line too: RowCount =

OCCURS(CHR(13),FILETOSTR(m.Filename)) <g>

>

> Benchmark it and you'll find out which one is faster and whether or

> not you can live with that slightly soiled sensations... ;-)

Testing showed these two pretty much a dead heat:

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

RowCount = ALINES(aCrap,FILETOSTR(m.Filename))

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