filesize

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net> wrote:

> Quoting Jeff Harrison (Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:03:07
> -0700 (PDT)):
> 
> >
> > --- Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net> wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >>
> >> Re-read what it says:
> >>
> >>      In a text file, it is possible that the
> value returned by FILESIZE()
> >>      is not the same number of bytes that can be
> read from the file.
> >>
> >> The discrepancy is between the file size and the
> number of bytes that
> >> you can read.  As in the above example, the file
> size is 13, but you
> >> can only read 10.
> [...]
> > Ok, re-read what it says:
> >
> > In a text file, it is possible that the value
> > returned by FILESIZE() is not the same number of
> bytes
> > that can be read from the file.
> >
> > It says "the value returned by filesize" (not the
> > actual file size), may not be the same as what can
> be
> > read from the file.  It does not say which one
> would
> > be larger - or why.  I gleaned that from your (and
> > Jay's) response.
> 
> Well, it also says:
> 
>      Return value
> 
>          The size, in bytes, of the file.
> 
> So "the value returned by filesize" is "the size, in
> bytes, of the file".
> 
> True, it does not give the "why".
> 
> -- 

Well, lets just say the entire help entry was not very
verbose - to say the least.

Using my deductive abilities - I believe that I have
figured out the source of this entry :-)

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The fastest and
easiest ways to generate filepro exports and imports.


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