On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:24:39PM +0100, Detlef Lindenthal wrote: > How can I read and process 60 MB of text, > line by line, but from the end to the beginning > (last line first). -- I tried thinking of doing this > by means of the Unix system statement "tail", > but instead of returning one single line "tail" > would return all the rest of the file. --
Use File::ReadBackwards. http://search.cpan.org/author/URI/File-ReadBackwards-0.99/ReadBackwards.pm Ronald