fast way to get file length?

[subotai]

Greetings!

Probably a simple question:
How can i determine the file length in bytes of a simple text file? Something with a while (! eof(FILE)) - loop, a getc(FILE) inside, incrementing a counter? I keep producing eternal loops with this!
Please forgive me, (Subotai==newbie)=1 :-D

Thankful for any help,
Subo

 

[subotai]

OUCH!

Im really sorry, just found the stat(FILE); function.

Apologies to everyone who wasted time on this!

 

[justice41]

A more standard way to read lines from a file in Perl is

while (<FILE>) {

     # the line read in is stored in the variable $_
     print &quot;$_&quot;;
}

or a long-hand way to do it that is perhaps more instructive

while ( defined ($line = <FILE>) ) {
     # do something with $line here like
     print $line;
}

jaa