Thread: simple problem about fseek()

i have seen some thread discuss about using fseek() to tell the size of the file.

from the msdn, it said it will return -1L if there is error.

i would like to ask how to check if the return value is an error or not?(i think that is not an integer right?)

thank you.

Originally posted by Jasonymk
i have seen some thread discuss about using fseek() to tell the size of the file.

from the msdn, it said it will return -1L if there is error.

i would like to ask how to check if the return value is an error or not?(i think that is not an integer right?)

thank you.

If it succeeds, it returns zero. Otherwise, you can check errno for specific information about the error.

Code:

if (fseek(...) != 0)
{
     switch (errno)
     {
         // ...
     }
}

See here: http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man3/fseek.3.asp

or sorry, i should ask about tellg()

in fact my code is:

Code:

file6.seekg (0, ios::end);
    int file_size = file6.tellg();
    cout << "The file is " << file_size << " bytes." << endl;

for a file it cant open, the out put will be :

the file is -1 bytes

i have tried to detect the error by if (filesize = -1) but fail, i wonder if the error no is an int or anythng else.

thank you

Code:

// read a file into memory
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main () {
  int length;
  char * buffer;

  ifstream is;
  is.open ("test.txt", ios::binary );

  // get length of file:
  is.seekg (0, ios::end);
  length = is.tellg();
  is.seekg (0, ios::beg);

  // allocate memory:
  buffer = new char [length];

  // read data as a block:
  is.read (buffer,length);

  is.close();

  cout.write (buffer,length);

  return 0;
}

[1] http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/iostrea...eam/tellg.html

Do you check if the stream is good ?

Code:

if ( file6.good() )   
{
   file6.seekg (0, ios::end);
   int file_size = file6.tellg();
   cout << "The file is " << file_size << " bytes." << endl;
   file6.seekg (0, ios::beg);
}
else
{
   cout << "There is a problem with the stream" << endl;
   //do error checking...
}