FileRead with Progress Bar

[Terenz]

Hello, I need to Read a file content like in this way:

$hFile = FileOpen($sFilePath)
$sTest = FileRead($hFile)
FileClose($hFile)

But i need to have a progress bar since i want to know the status of the "read", the file is bigger and require some times. Maybe i can read byte by byte:

Local $sTest
While 1
    $sTest = FileRead($hFile, 1)
    If @error = -1 Then ExitLoop
    $sTest &= $sTest 
WEnd

But first i dunno if is the best way, second i have a problem with the logic of the progress bar

Some help?

Thanks :D

[Jfish]

Have a look at this post.

[Terenz]

Isn't a text file, FileCountLine return 1

[Jfish]

EDIT: works on PDFs and JPGS for me which are binary files ... what type of file are you working with?

Edited September 14, 2019 by Jfish

[TheDcoder]

If the file that you want to read is in binary, make sure you use the $FO_BINARY flag in FileOpen. Also, reading byte by byte is not really efficient... I recommend reading in reasonably large chucks (maybe 4 kilobytes) which would still be small compared to the whole file.

[Bilgus]