Flength

flength

Description:

Function flength returns the length of a file.

Using an invalid handle will crash your server! Get a valid handle by using fopen or ftemp.

This function name starts with a lowercase letter.

Parameters:

(File:handle)

int

handle

The file handle returned by fopen or ftemp

Return Values:

The length of a file, in bytes.

Examples:

Example 1

// Open "file.txt" in "read only" mode
new File:handle = fopen("file.txt", io_read);
 
// If "file.txt" is open
if(handle)
{
	// Success
 
	// Print the size oin bytes of "file.txt"
	printf("File size: %d", flength(handle));
 
	// Close "file.txt"
	fclose(handle);
}
else
{
	// Error
	print("Failed to open \"file.txt\".");

Related Functions

The following functions may be useful, as they are related to this function in one way or another.

• fopen: Open a file (to read from or write to).
• fclose: Close a file.
• ftemp: Create a temporary file stream.
• fremove: Remove a file.
• fwrite: Write to a file.
• fread: Read a file.
• fputchar: Put a character in a file.
• fgetchar: Get a character from a file.
• fblockwrite: Write blocks of data into a file.
• fblockread: Read blocks of data from a file.
• fseek: Jump to a specific character in a file.
• fexist: Check, if a file exists.
• fmatch: Check, if patterns with a file name matches.