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how to find the no. of characters which are in a file in c program

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call fstat() or _fstat() depending on os and compiler.

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>how to find the no. of characters which are in a file in c program
Open the file and count them. Though I suspect you're asking the wrong question. Most of the time this question comes up when somebody wants to allocate a buffer large enough to hold the entire file, which is usually a poor solution in the first place.

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