File

[Reza Shojaee]

Hi everybody How can find out number of characters in a file?

Best Regards, Reza Shojaee

[Christian Graus]

File.ReadAllBytes.Count, or something like that You may be able to get it from the FileInfo class also.

Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

[Lost User]

Christian Graus wrote:

File.ReadAllBytes.Count, or something like that

That'll work for ASCII and UTF-32, but not for UTF-8 and some other encodings with variable character length. File.ReadAllText(path).Length should work better. regards

[Christian Graus]

Depends, if it's a text file or a binary file, and if he wants file size, or number of characters.

Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.

[realJSOP]

using System.IO;

FileInfo info = new FileInfo("filename.txt");
long charCount = info.Length;

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