number of entries in file

at the moment my file is just a text file on the web, so i just view it like

www.my-site.com/scores.txt

which gives me all the scores, eg..

mark=5644
john=4544 etc..

but is there a way i can make something to show me the total number of entries in the text file?

Is your file always in that format, as in each entry is on a new line? If so, you could use explode() with the newline character as the delimiter, and then use count() to get the number of entries.

Good luck

thanks but at the top of this file, is it possible to have smething like:

Total number of entries in this text file: x

Yes. Just use a vairable in the PHP script which creates it to count the number of lines.