FLfile.getSize()

Availability

Flash MX 2004 7.2.

Usage

FLfile.getSize(fileURI)

Parameters

fileURI

A string, expressed as a file:/// URI, specifying the file whose size you want to retrieve.

Returns

An integer that represents the size of the specified file, in bytes, or 0 if the file doesn’t exist.

Description

Method; returns an integer that represents the size of the specified file, in bytes, or 0 if the file doesn’t exist. If the return value is 0, you can use FLfile.exists() to determine whether the file is a zero-byte file or the file doesn’t exist.

This method returns correct file size values only for files that are less than or equal to 2GB in size.

Example

The following example stores the size of the mydata.txt file in the fileSize variable:

var URL = "file:///c|/temp/mydata.txt"; 
var fileSize = FLfile.getSize(URL);