How do you find the FileSize of a Text file

Let's say you have a memo that has the text from the file.(this is because we don;t want to get in details right now)....

To see how much the a text file takes place try this.....

procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  S : Real;
begin
  S := Length(Memo1.text) / 1024;//Get the number in kb not bytes
  ShowMessage(Format('%.1f''kb''', [s]));//Show the floating point value as example 2.1kb
end;

Hope this helps....
Regards,
Viktor Ivanov

Example without using Memo comp.....
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procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  S : Real;
  f : TextFile;
  k,z : String;
begin
  AssignFile(F, 'C:\windows\desktop\FindFuncInWebBrowser.txt');
  try
    Reset(F);
    Z := '';
    while not EOF(F) do
    begin
      ReadLn(F, k);
      Z := Z + K;
    end;
    S :=Length(Z) / 1024;
    ShowMessage(Format('%.1f''kb''', [s]));
  finally
    CloseFile(F);
  end;
end;
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Regards,
Viktor Ivanov

This is a good solution but requires opening and closing the file.  A co-worker was helping me on this this morning and suggested the following solutiong;

var
    FileSize  : integer;
    DirRec    : TSearchRec;

begin
    FileName := 'C:\Windows\myfile.txt';
    FindFirst(FileName, faAnyFile, DirRec);
    FileSize   := DirRec.Size;
end;

this could be either a function or procedure...

Your answer was very good and I appreciate the quick response...Thanks for all your help!

Well, I was thinking about this solution too, but had to realize that FindFirst/FindNext on a NT machine over a network needs a remarkable amount of time, so I suggested the other one.

Thanks and happy programming

Ciao, Mike

I was not aware of the degredation in performance on NT networks.  Luckily were not using NT here...however, I appreciate your thoughts and thanks again for the help!

Jim Walker