On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Tomas Hajny schrieb:
I wonder how to obtain the size of an file on disk. The only function I
could find so far is FileSize, which requires an open File, but nothing
for an file name :-(
ATM FileSize(TEXT) would help, too, but FileSize only accepts an FILE, not
TEXT :-(
What exactly do you want to achieve?
Effectively I'm missing a function FileSize(filename), similar to FileExists
or FileAge, for general use.
Is it because the file may be open as a text and denied sharing wouldn't
allow parallel opening for reading as an untyped file (as suggested by
Vinzent)? If this is the case, there is a nasty but completely platform
independent hack which you could use (based on the fact that the underlying
operating systems and their APIs make no difference between file and text).
Normally I use TFileStream's, which have a Size property. But I find it nasty
to open an file, when I only want to know its size. FPC (like Delphi) lacks
some basic file/directory handling functions (Size, Remove, Rename...), at
I think you didn't look very well in the docs.
DeleteFile
RenameFile
I agree the filesize is missing.
I will look into adding them to the documentation topics.
Michael.
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