Does anyone know a fast way of getting a file''s size? I suppose it could be done by reading 1 byte at a time and waiting for fread to stop reading.. Anyone know a better way?

FILE *fp = fopen("FileName","r"); // Open the file

fseek(fp,0,SEEK_END); // Go to end
fgetpos(fp,&pos); // Get position
printf("#Bytes = %ld",pos); // Output length
fseek(fp,0,SEEK_SET); // Go back to the beginning if you want

Use filelength().

  int handle;int length;handle = open("myfile.txt", O_CREAT);length = filelength(handle);close(handle);  

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The Win32 way:

HANDLE file;DWORD FileSize;file = CreateFile("file.txt", GENERIC_READ, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);FileSize = GetFileSize(file, (LPDWORD)NULL);CloseHandle(file); 

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The real(tm) way

savepos = ftell(somefile);
fseek(somefile, 0, SEEK_END);
fsize = ftell(somefile);
fseek(somefile, savepos, SEEK_SET);
return(fsize);

-Mezz

The way that Mezz gives is IMO the best becuase it uses ANSI functions. filelength isn''t supported on all systems, etc....