Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-12 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:47:41 -0900 Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:04:19PM -0500, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: Is there a way to place the last line read when reading from a file? My suspicion is there is no such thing but i do want to confirm.. Just another

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Gifford
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

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-10 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:04:19PM -0500, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: Is there a way to place the last line read when reading from a file? My suspicion is there is no such thing but i do want to confirm.. Just another guess at what you're asking about; perhaps the word placed was intended to be

Perl realted question..

2008-01-09 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
Is there a way to place the last line read when reading from a file? My suspicion is there is no such thing but i do want to confirm.. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 9, 2008 10:04 PM, ISHWAR RATTAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to place the last line read when reading from a file? My suspicion is there is no such thing but i do want to confirm.. What do you mean by place? -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-09 Thread Sam
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] On 1/9/08, Chris Howie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 10:04 PM, ISHWAR RATTAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to place the last

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
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