How to get the total no. of Lines of a text file

[Mullin Yu]

as subject!

[Stuart Gray]

Try using the LineNumberReader class. Set it up something like this:

FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream("foo.dat");
LineNumberReader lnr = new LineNumberReader(new InputStreamReader(fin));

Then keep calling readLine() to read each line as a String, and getLineNumber() to determine which line you are on (note it starts counting at zero).