[Buffalo-pm] Determining the size of a filehandle

[Eye, Kevin]

Or maybe something like this?

http://search.cpan.org/~clkao/IO-Statistics-0.12/lib/IO/Statistics.pm

Never used it before, BTW.

 - Kevin


On 11/17/09 11:34 AM, "Joshua Johnson" <joshpauljohnson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've never tried this on a filehandle but it looks like you can stat it:
> 
> http://www.rocketaware.com/perl/perlfunc/stat.htm
> 
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Daniel Magnuszewski
> <dmagnuszewski at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I have a filehandle that is being written to in memory (not to the file on
>> disk), and I need to determine the size of the data that it points to. What's
>> the best way to find the size of the filehandle?
>> 
>> -Dan
>> 
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