Filesize() Function

[Nancy Palmquist]

Richard,

I was at that point in my thinking.  Thank you for the response.

Nancy

On 5/13/2020 10:49 AM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> 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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