Counting Characters : Read lines together « File Directory « Ruby






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Counting Characters


lines = File.readlines("text.txt")
line_count = lines.size
text = lines.join

puts "#{line_count} lines"

total_characters = text.length
puts "#{total_characters} characters"








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1.File.readlines
2.You can also read an entire file into an array, split by lines