[Tutor] What is the best way to count the number of lines in a huge file?

[dman]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:39:44PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
| On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, dman wrote:
| > Heh.  I didn't even know windows had a 256k boundary.  I always though
| 
| ?
| 
| I meant the parameter passed to file.read() in my code (262144B=256KiB).

Oh, right.  Searching for a sequence of characters in an stream of
bytes is problematic unless you have some sort of structure within
which to work (IOW that boundary thing).

-D