Hi! I have a very stupid question... How do I get the size of a file. In C and in C++? Thanks Floru

Use fseek to move the file pointer to the end and then do an ftell to get the size. (Or does fseek also return the new position??)

Tim

If successful, fseek returns 0. Otherwise, it returns a nonzero value. On devices incapable of seeking, the return value is undefined.

This seems to come up every other week.

stat() returns a bunch of info about a given file. Including the size.

-Mike

ditto... cut from my code:

curpos = ftell(f);
fseek(f, 0L, SEEK_END);
size = ftell(f);
fseek(f, curpos, SEEK_SET);

You could also do this:

    #include <io.h>// ...FILE *input;// blablalong fileSize = _filelength(_fileno(input));    

Why they put underscores in front of the names is beyond me. Perhaps because these functions aren''t ANSI C (you won''t find them under UN*X).

Dormeur

If you wanna risk using MFC you could use CFile -

    CFile file;int sizeoffile;if (file.Open("myfile.txt", CFile::typeBinary | CFile::modeRead, NULL)) // open the file, in binary and read modes{sizeoffile = file.GetLength();	// get the size of the filefile.Close();  // close the file}    

Read up on it on MSDN if you wanna know more.. this is of course presuming you are using Visual C++