From: "Ingo Ruhnke" <ruhnke AT owl-online DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: How to get file size?
Date: 29 Sep 1997 19:12:30 GMT
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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?

Thanks to everyone who could help,
Ingo