/**
 * Counts the amount of lines (\n) in given file
 * @param f The file to be used
 * @return The number of lines in the file
 */
int getNumberOfLines(FILE *f) {
    int count = 0;

    //start from the beginning
    fseek(f, 0, SEEK_SET);

    //read
    char * buf = new char[BUFFERING_BLOCK_SIZE];
    for (;;) {
        //read a nice chunk (to minimize head seek overhead)
        size_t amount_read = fread(buf, sizeof(char), BUFFERING_BLOCK_SIZE, f);
        if (amount_read == 0)
            break;
        //count occurrences of '\n' in that chunk
        for (size_t i = 0; i < amount_read; i++) {
            if (buf[i] == '\n')
                count++;
        }
    }
    free(buf);
//  if (DEBUG)
//      cout << "Number of lines:\t" << count << endl;
    return count;
}