File size using ifstream

[UmaGrama]

Hi all,

Does anybody know a way to find out the size of a file? I read in a file using ifstream and I was hoping to put a progress bar in my program though the file size is changing therefore I cannot have a constant stepping in the progress bar.

Any ideas?

 

[2ffat]

From the back of my mind, you can use seek to go from the beginning of the file to the ending of the file and counting the number of bytes. Unfortunately, I can't find my notes to give you an example. I'll keep looking if you want.


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