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() (../FLfile_object/FLfile2.md) 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

javascript
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);