ftell

ExampleFile Manipulation Functions

Returns the current file position of the given stream.

long int ftell( FILE *stream )

streamThe pointer to a FILE object that identifies the stream.

For ftell details, refer to your C language documentation.

Return Values

Returns the current value of the position indicator. On error, returns -1 and the global variable errno is set to a positive value.

Example

#include <stdio.h>
FILE* fileHandle;
int fileLen;

if ((fileHandle = fopen(lr_eval_string("{FilePath}"),  "rb+")) == NULL)  {
    lr_error_message ("Cannot open file %s", lr_eval_string("{FilePath}"));   
    lr_abort();
}

fseek(fileHandle, 0, SEEK_END);
fileLen=ftell(fileHandle);

fseek(fileHandle, 0, SEEK_SET);
lr_output_message("File name: %s", lr_eval_string("{FilePath}"));
lr_output_message("File length is: %9d bytes.", fileLen);