Timeline for What is the optimal algorithm for estimating number of lines of text in a file?
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| Dec 14, 2020 at 0:21 | answer | added | spisk | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Dec 13, 2020 at 13:30 | history | edited | Doc Brown | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Made clearer a guess is wanted |
| S Dec 13, 2020 at 13:30 | history | suggested | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Made clearer a guess is wanted |
| Dec 5, 2020 at 3:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/1335056558686937089 | ||
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| S Dec 1, 2020 at 17:40 | history | edited | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 51 characters in body; edited title |
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| Nov 30, 2020 at 23:46 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 30, 2020 at 23:28 | history | protected | gnat | ||
| Nov 30, 2020 at 20:59 | answer | added | Arunima | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 10, 2016 at 10:17 | answer | added | candied_orange | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 11, 2013 at 1:52 | answer | added | Nick Burns | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 11, 2013 at 1:47 | answer | added | DougM | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Jul 11, 2013 at 1:22 | history | suggested | SoapBox | Removed tag; this has nothing to do with extreme programming | |
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| Jul 10, 2013 at 23:20 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | @StevenBurnap: that looks like an answer rather than a request for clarification. Why not write it as an answer? | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 23:11 | comment | added | user53141 | To estimate the number of lines without actually counting them, you're going to need some estimate of the number of characters per line. If the file is very large, and the line lengths are statistically regular, count the number of lines in the first megabyte to get an estimate of bytes per line, then divide the total file size by that. (Note: I don't think "optimal" is possible here because you are necessarily trading away accuracy for speed. There is nothing "more optimal" then scanning the whole file if you want a correct answer.) | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 22:51 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 10, 2013 at 22:43 | comment | added | rezeptor | Thanx. Title is great. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 22:41 | history | edited | user28988 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited title |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 22:40 | comment | added | user28988 | I'm gonna change your title a tad to better reflect what you want. Feel free to change it back if it's not better. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 22:36 | comment | added | rezeptor | any language, not only python, any way to get number of lines as more fast as it possible. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 22:34 | comment | added | user28988 | Are you looking for an algorithm or a Python specific implementation? If it's the latter, let me know and I'll migrate this to Stack Overflow. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 22:32 | history | asked | rezeptor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |