Using C++ filestreams (fstream), how can you determine the size of a file?

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You can open the file using the ios::ate flag (and ios::binary flag), so the tellg() function will give you directly the file size:

ifstream file( "example.txt", ios::binary | ios::ate);
return file.tellg();

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