Newbie Needs help!!

Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Fri Oct 10 13:26:43 EDT 2003


Bryano wrote:

...
> FileCon  = InFile.read()
At this point you have read the entire file.
> FileLines = InFile.readline()
So there is nothing to read here.
-- Oh, I see, you expect readline() to return the line number.
    It returns the next line in the file (which is empty).

You need to count the lines yourself, if you want a count.

-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org





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