Find how many lines in string
You can split()
it and find the length of the resulting list
:
length = len(x.split('\n'))
Or you can count()
the number of newline characters:
length = x.count('\n')
Or you can use splitlines()
and find the length of the resulting list
:
length = len(x.splitlines())
If newline is '\n'
then nlines = x.count('\n')
.
The advantage is that you don't need to create an unnecessary list as .split('\n')
does (the result may differ depending on x.endswith('\n')
).
str.splitlines()
accepts more characters as newlines: nlines = len(x.splitlines())
.