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Folks,
I'm reading in input from an external file and I want to know in advance the number of pages that the external file contains....as I want to break-up the input page by page.
Is there a method to determine the number of pages in say a .txt file or a .pdf file ?
Cheers
Starkhorn
Not without reading the whole file.
A PDF file might contain the information, but that is a proprietary file format.
I don't think that is a good approach...how would you measure the size of a page on a txt file?
But whatever you do, just like Salem said you must read in the whole file first; than maybe count pages as 80 chars per row multiplied by whatever number of rows.