From: foxidrive@server.invalid   
      
   On 3/12/2015 02:13, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:   
   > On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:54:35 -0000, Ammammata    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> I have a text file, about 860,000 lines: I need to know the lenght of the   
   >> longest line   
   >>   
   >> can I do it with a batch? I'm using Windows7   
   >>   
   > No that's far too big. use C.   
      
   I'm not sure why you say that - as you can't tell by the number of lines.  :)   
   If the longest line is over 8 KB then vanilla batch may baulk.   
      
   Other solutions exist that batch files can use to get the max line length.   
      
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