truncate file

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

7 Mar 2006 10:56 PM

leibnizster

Hello,

I have a 4 GB file and I want to truncate it to, say, 3.8. Cany I do
something like seek to some byte in the file and then delete all the
bytes that come after that? If yes how?

Thanks

7 Mar 2006 11:26 PM

leibnizster

if anyone cares, I used interop with the function:
SetEndOfFile()

8 Mar 2006 7:40 AM

Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

<leibnizs***@gmail.com> wrote:

> if anyone cares, I used interop with the function:
> SetEndOfFile()

You didn't need to do that. Just use FileStream.SetLength.

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