From:	"A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: How to get file size?
Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:39:49 -0500
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Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> 
> I want to read a ASCII Text file, therefore I do allocate some memory 
> with malloc() and therefore I need the filesize, more exactly the 
> number of characters. At the moment I use this to get the file size:
> 
> filelength(fileno(FILE *))
> 
> This returns me the number of bytes of the file, but the number of 
> chars is a little bit smaller, because of the <LF><CR>.
>
> So is there a standart way to get the number of chars in a file?

i wouldn't think so... at least not without reading in the whole file
first. what is the problem with reserving space for a few extra bytes?

  -- Sinan

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