In that case, do this.. open(IN, "filename"); @file=<IN>; print "$file[$#file]\n";
Agustin Rivera Webmaster, Pollstar.com http://www.pollstar.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Kelty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Agustin Rivera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:27 AM Subject: RE: Last line of file... > Thank you, but I would like to programmatically do it from perl rather than > using shell commands. Make the whole script more portable. > > -James > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Agustin Rivera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:30 AM > To: James Kelty; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Last line of file... > > > 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]
