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in reply to Re: Finding Line numbers in a file
in thread Finding Line numbers in a file

Nice, but inefficient, and gets worse the bigger the text file is.

Do not do this, use the others, they increase in a linear proportion with the size of the text file, and do not require entire file to be loaded into memory.

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