If I understand you correctly, you will need to iterate over the file, counting each line as you iterate over it.

You could also try using one of the externals that handles shell commands and then use 'wc' to count the words and lines in your file.

Mike

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:46 PM, mark edward grimm <mgrimm@syr.edu> wrote:
Hello,

Maybe I am missing something. I want to print the
number of lines in a text file loaded into 'msgfile'
OR equivalent object.  The object seems to do
everything but that!! Am i missing something right in
front of me? I just need to know the number of lines
in a text file that i load...

Thanks!!!

BTW 'msgfile-help.pd' is missing in my pd-extended
recent auto-build...

cheers
mark



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