How to calculate the files size.

Question

Let's say I'm going to create a certain file with a certain amount of content. How can I calculate the size of the file before creating it? The content will be plain text so is the file size just the amount of bytes the text has?

Answer 1

May be it is related to the character encoding we like to use in our text file.. If it is on ASCII, each character takes one byte or less so that we can calculate the file size.. If it is on UNICODE, the file size varies.. for more information refer this stack overflow post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5290182/how-many-bytes-does-one-unicode-character-take

Answer 2

Hello Toni!

See the c++ lesson, and look the foolowing topic"sizeof an Array"
they talk about the sizeof () function.
Remind : this Array
category type minimum size
boolean bool 1 byte
character char 1 byte
integer int 2 bytes
and so on
Good luck!!
stephan (France)