that what i ended up doing last night....in the code just above it, the contents happened to be in a variable so i just did a len() of that ;) and it worked!!!
thanks anyway isaac. t w -----Original Message----- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:info@;turnkey.to] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 11:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: counting # of characters in file > is there a function, that i missing from the help file > for some reason, cant find anything, to count the amount > of characters in a file? > not the file length, but the actual amount of characters > in a file? There's no native function, you'd have to read in the file and check the length... In CFMX you could write this into a UDF. <cffunction name="getFileLength"> <cfargument name="filepath" type="string"> <cffile action="read" file="#filepath#" variable="myfile"> <cfreturn value="#len(myfile)#"> </cffunction> hth Isaac Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer www.turnkey.to 954-776-0046 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
