How to get the number of rows/records in a spark RDD?

[Gaurav Dasgupta]

HI,

I am a beginner in Spark.
Is there any way that I can get the total number of rows/records from a spark RDD/Input text file?

Actually I am trying to run an iterative mapreduce job and it should iterate for the total number of rows in the input text file. Is there any way for this?

Thanks,
Gaurav Dasgupta

[Reynold Xin]

Try rdd.count