Am 07.10.2017 01:13 schrieb "James Richters" <[email protected] >: > > I am wondering how to get the file size reported by the OS for a particular file without opening it. I tried to search for ‘Free Pascal File Size’ and variations but all I get are things like this: > > > > https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/filesize.html > > > > which is not what I’m looking for. > > > > I’ve been looking through the sysutils reference here: > > https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/index-5.html > > > > and I see disk size, but not file size… > > > > Could someone please point me in the right direction?
TSearchRec contains a Size field so you can use FindFirst with the specific filename instead of a pattern (don't forget FindClose then ;) ) to have a cross platform solution. Otherwise you'd need to use system specific mechanisms (e.g. GetFileAttributeEx on Windows, stat on *nix). Regards, Sven
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