Filesize() Function

[Richard Kreiss]

Nancy,

Most of the time when a Filepro function gives a negative # it means that it can't find the object( in your case the file).

What value does aa show?  If it is blank or negative then the file was not found.  In that case you would continue to get negative values.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting



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Friends and filePro Experts,

Does anyone have an idea what it means when I do the following commands?

aa(8,.0)=Open([Name of file])

ab(8,.0)=filesize(aa)   'should report the filesize of the opened file and does most of the time.

But sometimes I get the value "-4" instead of a positive number of some kind.

I expect it might be an error of some kind and if a -4 is possible, can I expect other negative numbers?

I would appreciate any insight on this.  I am kind of assuming the file was not created or something bad like that happened.

Nancy Palmquist

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