[Haskell-cafe] hFileSize vs length

[Gracjan Polak]

S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
 > I am using GHC 6.2 on windows and am finding that when I open a file and
 > use hFileSize I get a different number than I get from reading in the
 > file and calculating the length.  I assume this is not a bug, but I
 > don't know why its happening.

Isn't that because of line end conversion? EOL on windows is \r\n (2 
bytes), when read converted on the fly to \n (1 char).

Try to open your file in binary mode.

 >
 > Also, why isn't there getFileSize function in System.Directory?

System.Posix.Files has getFileStatus and fileSize. No idea if they work 
on windows.

 >
 > -Alex-
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