1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3d33d0967SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 4cdf0e10cSrcweir * 5d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6d33d0967SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7d33d0967SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 8d33d0967SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9d33d0967SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11d33d0967SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12cdf0e10cSrcweir * 13d33d0967SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14cdf0e10cSrcweir * 15d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16d33d0967SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18d33d0967SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19d33d0967SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20d33d0967SAndrew Rist * under the License. 21cdf0e10cSrcweir * 22d33d0967SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 23d33d0967SAndrew Rist 24cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 26cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03020408xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">FileLen-Function [Runtime]</title> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020408.xhp</filename> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="filelen"> 33e91968a5Smseidel<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153126"> 34e91968a5Smseidel<bookmark_value>FileLen function</bookmark_value> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 36*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153126" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020408.xhp" name="FileLen-Function [Runtime]">FileLen Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 37*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145068" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Returns the length of a file in bytes.</paragraph> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 39*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159414" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph> 40*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149656" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">FileLen (Text As String)</paragraph> 41*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148798" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Return value:</paragraph> 42*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156282" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Long</paragraph> 43*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150768" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Parameters:</paragraph> 44*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153193" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 46*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150439" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 49*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3163710" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 50*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3159154" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleFileLen</paragraph> 51*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145271" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">msgbox FileLen("C:\autoexec.bat")</paragraph> 52*f4f92c7eSmseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145749" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">end sub</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 55