How to determine the lines in a file?

[smercurio_fc]

altenbach,

You are quite right about the extra memory allocation. To be honest, I wasn't thinking about that as I forgot about the fact that he initially said the file may contain up to 120000 lines. To be honest, nowadays I forget a lot of things...

As for using the Split Array: just habit, nothing else. Sometimes you just get used to doing things one way, and like I said I wasn't paying attention to the size of the array.

As for using the Convert to Array and Unbundle: Yes, I'm aware of the resize capability of the Index Array. Again, this is just habit - nothing more. Besides, I was actually tying to get him to use the "Scan From String" function as that is clearly the better solution, wouldn't you agree?

[FedeSAE]

I did not use Scan from string because I will get this error:

Error 85 occurred at Scan From String (arg 3) in Graph sensors 2.0.vi

Not sure why.

I have to try to use my file becuase I might have performance issues.

I will test and let you know.

Thanks

[smercurio_fc]

Error 85 can be caused if the format string you're providing the function doesn't match the expected format of the line it's trying to scan. The VI I provided worked just fine for the two sample files you gave, which probably means that the file you're trying to scan has a different format. You should take a look at your file.

[FedeSAE]

Solved the problem.

Thanks guys.

I used scan from string.