Re: Standard C++ file size ???
On Jul 9, 12:22 am, "Thomas J. Gritzan" <phygon_antis...@gmx.de>
wrote:
Am 08.07.2010 14:59, schrieb Ali Karaali:
On 8 Temmuz, 11:32, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 7, 9:53 pm, Ali Karaali <ali...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7 Temmuz, 18:02, Peter Olcott <NoS...@OCR4Screen.com> wrote:
On 7/6/2010 1:26 PM, James Kanze wrote:
[...]
I run your and Mr. Kanze's code and I took that's a kind of result.
Yours:
den.txt: size = 14
Mr. Kanze's:
den.txt: size = 14
den.txt: read failed
I'm a little confuse, what is the difference between yours and Kanze's
code?
None, really. Maybe some other program modified the file while
my program was reading it?
No. I tried several times wirh different files under windows in VC++
and g++, I took the same results. Yours is always giving reading
failure. Really confuse... Is there any sensible reason?
James' code opens the file in text mode, while Peter's code opens it in
binary mode. That this method of getting the file size doesn't work in
text mode was the reason for James to write it (AFAIK).
Did it. I think I've posted both variants (text and binary) at
various occasions. The text mode will typically fail (under
Windows---not on Unix machines), and is posted as an example of
the problem. The binary mode will typically work (at least
under Windows and Unix), and is posted as a simply solution when
only very limited portability is necessary (but even in such
cases, I prefer using the system level interface).
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