If this is all you want your script to do, I suggest using this command tail -n1 filename
Agustin Rivera Webmaster, Pollstar.com http://www.pollstar.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Kelty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:21 AM Subject: Last line of file... > Is there a document in perldoc that tells the best way to get the last line > of a file? Below is my usual code for reading a file. > > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > $file = qq(/some/file/); > > open FILE, "$file" or die "Cannot open file: $!\n"; > > while(<FILE>) { > do something with the line; > } > > close(FILE); > > > What I want to do is read just the last line. Might help in the case of a > password file or something like that. > > Thanks! > > -James > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
