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Re: Check the size of a file

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May 9th, 2008
1) file size is an unsigned integer not a double.

2) >> double filesize = path.size();
All that is doing is getting the number of characters in the string, not the file size

Here is how to get the file size
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size_t fileSize = 0;
string path = "C:\\Folder1\\Folder2\\OneFile.txt";
ifstream infile(path.c_str());
if(infile.is_open())
{
    infile.seekg(0, ios::end ); // move to end of file
    fileSize = infile.tellg();
}
cout << "file size is " << fileSize << "\n";

There are a couple other ways to get it, such as calling the stat() function.
Last edited by Ancient Dragon : May 9th, 2008 at 6:17 pm.
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