Count number of line using C

Question

Is there a way to count the number of lines in my file using C?

Answer 1

If you want to perform this programmatically, open the file in text mode and perform fgetc() operation until you reach end of file. Keep a count of number of times fgetc was called.

    FILE *fp = fopen("myfile.txt");
    int ch;
    int count=0;
    do
    {
        ch = fgetc(fp);
        if(ch == '\n') count++;   
    } while( ch != EOF );    

    printf("Total number of lines %d\n",count);