diff --git a/src/Csv.php b/src/Csv.php
index d433d75..51ca6b0 100644
--- a/src/Csv.php
+++ b/src/Csv.php
@@ -508,6 +508,44 @@ class Csv {
         return $this->delimiter;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Get total number of data rows (exclusive heading line if present) in csv
+     * without parsing whole data.
+     *
+     * @return bool|int
+     */
+    public function getTotalDataRowCount() {
+        if (empty($this->file_data)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        $data = $this->file_data;
+
+        $this->_detect_and_remove_sep_row_from_data($data);
+
+        $pattern = sprintf('/(%1$s[^%1$s]*%1$s)/i', $this->enclosure);
+        preg_match_all($pattern, $data, $matches);
+
+        foreach ($matches[0] as $match) {
+            if (empty($match) || (strpos($match, $this->enclosure) === false)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            $replace = str_replace(["\r", "\n"], '', $match);
+            $data = str_replace($match, $replace, $data);
+        }
+
+        $headingRow = $this->heading ? 1 : 0;
+
+        $count = substr_count($data, "\r")
+            + substr_count($data, "\n")
+            - substr_count($data, "\r\n")
+            - $headingRow;
+
+
+        return $count;
+    }
+
     // ==============================================
     // ----- [ Core Functions ] ---------------------
     // ==============================================
@@ -883,12 +921,19 @@ class Csv {
      */
     protected function _validate_row_condition($row, $condition) {
         $operators = array(
-            '=', 'equals', 'is',
-            '!=', 'is not',
-            '<', 'is less than',
-            '>', 'is greater than',
-            '<=', 'is less than or equals',
-            '>=', 'is greater than or equals',
+            '=',
+            'equals',
+            'is',
+            '!=',
+            'is not',
+            '<',
+            'is less than',
+            '>',
+            'is greater than',
+            '<=',
+            'is less than or equals',
+            '>=',
+            'is greater than or equals',
             'contains',
             'does not contain',
         );
diff --git a/tests/methods/DataRowCountTest.php b/tests/methods/DataRowCountTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..693d736
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/methods/DataRowCountTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace ParseCsv\tests\methods;
+
+use ParseCsv\Csv;
+use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+
+
+class DataRowCountTest extends TestCase {
+
+    /**
+     * CSV
+     * The CSV object
+     *
+     * @access protected
+     * @var Csv
+     */
+    protected $csv;
+
+    /**
+     * Setup
+     * Setup our test environment objects
+     *
+     * @access public
+     */
+    public function setUp() {
+        $this->csv = new Csv();
+    }
+
+    public function countRowsProvider() {
+        return [
+            'auto-double-enclosure' => [
+                'auto-double-enclosure.csv',
+                2,
+            ],
+            'auto-single-enclosure' => [
+                'auto-single-enclosure.csv',
+                2,
+            ],
+            'UTF-8_sep_row' => [
+                'datatype.csv',
+                3,
+            ],
+        ];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider countRowsProvider
+     *
+     * @param string $file
+     * @param int    $expectedRows
+     */
+    public function testGetTotalRowCountFromFile($file, $expectedRows) {
+        $this->csv->heading = true;
+        $this->csv->load_data(__DIR__ . '/fixtures/' . $file);
+        $this->assertEquals($expectedRows, $this->csv->getTotalDataRowCount());
+    }
+
+    public function testGetTotalRowCountMissingEndingLineBreak() {
+        $this->csv->heading = false;
+        $this->csv->enclosure = '"';
+        $sInput = "86545235689,a\r\n34365587654,b\r\n13469874576,\"c\r\nd\"";
+        $this->csv->load_data($sInput);
+        $this->assertEquals(3, $this->csv->getTotalDataRowCount());
+    }
+
+
+    public function testGetTotalRowCountSingleEnclosure() {
+        $this->csv->heading = false;
+        $this->csv->enclosure = "'";
+        $sInput = "86545235689,a\r\n34365587654,b\r\n13469874576,\'c\r\nd\'";
+        $this->csv->load_data($sInput);
+        $this->assertEquals(3, $this->csv->getTotalDataRowCount());
+    }
+
+}