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Calculate a file length. The file need to be in `rb` mode (reading and binary mode)
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#include <stdio.h> | |
int flen(FILE *f) | |
{ | |
int len; | |
int origin = ftell(f); | |
fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END); | |
len = ftell(f); | |
fseek(f, origin, SEEK_SET); | |
return len; | |
} |
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You can't do this, rewind doesn't save the origin, it literally does
fseek(f, 0, SEEK_SET)
, which doesn't really "rewind" the cursor