C# Newbie: Getting file size of text file?

[Mashao Rakgole]

In C#,

How does one get the file size of a given text file?

BR
Mashao

 

[Erik Molenaar]

You can use System.IO.FileInfo

example:
System.IO.FileInfo fileInfo = new System.IO.FileInfo(@"c:\getmysize.txt");
// write file length in bytes to textbox1
this.textBox1.Text = fileInfo.Length.ToString();


Hope this helps,
Erik

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,


You can get the size of any file by using FileInfo.Length

 

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In C#,

How does one get the file size of a given text file?

To get the size in bytes, you use the Length property of the FileInfo
class, as others already have mentioned.

If you want to know the size in characters, you have to read the file
and decode the bytes into characters to find out the size.