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From: alang@masscomp.UUCP (Alan Groupe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Turbo C file size routine
Message-ID: <2475@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 15:29:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 15:29:45 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 06:32:04 EST
Reply-To: alang@masscomp.UUCP (Alan Groupe)
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I'm looking for a way to determine the size of a text file from within Turbo
C. Determining the size of a binary file is trivial, using the stat call,
but if I open the file in text mode, stat returns the same value, which
is now incorrect (ie. CR/LF count as two characters in the count, although
are read as a single newline character. So far, I've been opening the file
in text mode and running the following loop, but this is slow:

	i=0;
	while (getc(fp) >= 0) i++;

Is there a faster way to do this?

Alan Groupe