File Size retrieval

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February 24th, 2003, 06:19 PM

rwieren

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File Size retrieval

Is there a way to retrieve file size in Perl. I hove found the function for calling wether a file has data or not, but have not seen one for how many bytes, or KB a file is. Can anyone help?

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February 24th, 2003, 06:56 PM

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Use the stat function.

Code:

$filename = "test.txt"; # your filename comes here
my ($dev, $ino, $mode, $nlink, $uid, $gid, $rdev, $size, $atime, $mtime,
$ctime, $blksize, $blocks) = stat $filename;

print "Size of $filename in bytes = $size\n";

Hope this helps

Last edited by Scorpions4ever : February 24th, 2003 at 06:59 PM.

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