Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:45:15PM -0800, Sam wrote: >> if i read you correctly, you can read the file into an array and use pop, >> which will return the last element read.Or you could use @array[-1] > > That's rather wasteful of memory, which becomes a concern with larger > files. If the objective is indeed to get the last line in the file, > then you only need a scalar to stick each line into and its final stored > value will be the last line:
Or use File::ReadBackwards, which will generally do this in a much more efficient way. It's in Debian package libfile-readbackwards-perl. ----Scott. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
