package iox import ( "bytes" "io" "os" ) const bufSize = 32 * 1024 // CountLines returns the number of lines in file. func CountLines(file string) (int, error) { f, err := os.Open(file) if err != nil { return 0, err } defer f.Close() var noEol bool buf := make([]byte, bufSize) count := 0 lineSep := []byte{'\n'} for { c, err := f.Read(buf) count += bytes.Count(buf[:c], lineSep) switch { case err == io.EOF: if noEol { count++ } return count, nil case err != nil: return count, err } noEol = c > 0 && buf[c-1] != '\n' } }