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From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Turbo C File Size Routines:
Message-ID: <26201F3B.1118@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 9 Apr 90 05:35:55 GMT
References: <3263@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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   Well, I don't know if TC provides a function to determine the length
of the file, but you can certainly use ftell() to find your current
position and something similar to the following to determine the length
of the file if it doesn't (and the following should be portable to all
C compilers - it will certainly work on anything that accepts ANSI C).

#include <stdio.h>

long	filelength (FILE *fp)
{
   long   current_position = ftell (fp);
   long   length_of_file;

   fseek (fp, 0, SEEK_END);
   length_of_file = ftell (fp);
   fseek (fp, current_position, SEEK_SET);

   return length_of_file;
}

   Please excuse any typos ...
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Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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