last entry in a file

2008-01-17 Thread paul_0403
Is there a quick and easy way in perl to get the last entry in a file for a specific value For example If I have the following data in a file 1<\len> int<\type> 2<\len> int<\type> 3<\len> int<\type> I would like to get the line 3<\len>. Please keep in mind that the data in the file is only a sa

Getting last key from a file

2008-01-19 Thread paul_0403
Is there a quick and easy way that I can get the last key from a file. For example, If I have this in my file (see below) how can I get the line 20<\val2>, with out reading through the entire file 0<\val1> 0<\val2> 0<\val3> 10<\val1> 10<\val2> 10<\val3> 20<\val1> 20<\val2> 20<\val3> -- To unsu