Possible Duplicate:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8236/how-do-you-determine-the-size-of-a-file-in-c http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8236/how-do-you-determine-the-size-of-a-file-in-c
How can I find out the size of a file? I opened with an application written in C. I would like to know the size, because I want to put the content of the loaded file into a string, which I alloc using malloc(). Just writing malloc(10000*sizeof(char)); is IMHO a bad idea.