How can I get a file's size in C?
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How can I find out the size of a file? I opened with an application written in C. 
I would like to know the size, because I want to put the content of the loaded file into a string, which I alloc using malloc(). Just writing malloc(10000*sizeof(char)); is IMHO a bad idea. 
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