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How to get the file length in C on Linux?

I'm looking for the equivalent of Microsoft's _filelength in Linux. I tried this, but it's incorrect.

long _filelength(char *f)
{
    struct stat st;
    stat(f, &st);
    return st.st_size;
}

if((hfile = fopen("data.arp","rb"))!=NULL)
    fsize = _filelength(fileno(hfile));

How do I get the file length in C on Linux?

Solution 
  • FILE *fp = fopen("filename", "rb");
fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_END);
int lengthOfFile = ftell(fp);
fclose(fp);