1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*d33d0967SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 5cdf0e10cSrcweir * 6*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 9*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * 14*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * 16*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * under the License. 22*d33d0967SAndrew Rist * 23*d33d0967SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 24*d33d0967SAndrew Rist 25*d33d0967SAndrew Rist 26cdf0e10cSrcweir 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03020408xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">FileLen-Function [Runtime]</title> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020408.xhp</filename> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 33cdf0e10cSrcweir<history> 34cdf0e10cSrcweir<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir<lastedited date="2004-09-01T15:28:40">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36cdf0e10cSrcweir</history> 37cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="filelen"> 40cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153126"><bookmark_value>FileLen function</bookmark_value> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 42cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153126" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020408.xhp" name="FileLen-Function [Runtime]">FileLen Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145068" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the length of a file in bytes.</paragraph> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159414" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149656" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">FileLen (Text As String)</paragraph> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148798" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156282" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Long</paragraph> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150768" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153193" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression that contains an unambiguous file specification. You can also use <link href="text/sbasic/shared/00000002.xhp" name="URL notation">URL notation</link>.</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150439" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">This function determines the length of a file. If the FileLen function is called for an open file, it returns the file length before it was opened. To determine the current file length of an open file, use the Lof function.</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3163710" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3159154" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleFileLen</paragraph> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145271" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">msgbox FileLen("C:\autoexec.bat")</paragraph> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145749" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">end sub</paragraph> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 61