Re: What's wrong with my line counter script?

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"Eric Bragas" <ericbragas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

Below is the contents of my linecounter.vbs file, which I hoped was
going to be useful in telling me how many lines a text file
includes,
but seems to max out at 65,000 (give or take) even though I know my
files are over 800,000 lines of text. Any suggestions? I'm
obviously
oversimplifying or else this wouldn't be a problem.

Thanks,
Eric

----linecounter.vbs--------------------------------------------
Dim objArgs
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments

TgtFile = objArgs(0)
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fso.OpenTextFile(TgtFile)
ra = f.ReadAll
msg = objArgs(0) & vbcrlf
msg = msg & " line count: " & f.Line

WScript.Echo msg
--(end)------------------------------------------------------------

You are creating the textstream object, f, without specifying a
format, so it defaults to ASCII, according to the documentation. If
the file happens to actually be formatted as Unicode, then you may
have problems reading it properly.

You could read the first two characters (as ASCII) -- I've never seen
a Unicode file read fail in the first two characters. If they are hex
FF FE or FE FF, then the file system thinks it is Unicode and you may
have problems, unless you specify the format as Unicode.

-Paul Randall


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