How to find the number of chars in a file?

[clearguy]

Hi,

I need to know how much chars are in a file,it could be any file possible.

I tryed to FileRead then StringLen,but it just gives the first lines of a file.

Is there a possibility with FileGetSize,then to calculate the amount of chars with the size in bytes?

thanx

[Jos]

Hi,

I need to know how much chars are in a file,it could be any file possible.

I tryed to FileRead then StringLen,but it just gives the first lines of a file.

Is there a possibility with FileGetSize,then to calculate the amount of chars with the size in bytes?

thanx

FileGetSize() returns the numbers of bytes of a file Edited August 19, 2006 by JdeB

[clearguy]

yes I know.Is each character equal to a certain amount of bytes?

[SmOke_N]

yes I know.Is each character equal to a certain amount of bytes?

StringLen(FileRead($File)) doesn't work for you?

Or if you're using 3.1.1

StringLen(FileRead($File), FileGetSize($File))?

[clearguy]

This works fine thanx.

[Jos]

yes I know.Is each character equal to a certain amount of bytes?

When i went to school 1 character was 1 byte... don't think it changed unless you use Unicode which uses 2 bytes for each character.

[randallc]

but you might not want to count the eol, lf chars...

Randall