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Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:54 AM
Subject: Reading files backwards
> Hi Gang,
>
> Got a problem which may help others if there is a solution...
> I need to read the very last line from a file that's 3 - 20MBs large...
> So I tried:
>
> open file blabla for reading
> read from file blabla for -100
> put the result into r
> put it into x
> close file blabla
>
Is this your actual code? If so, maybe there's a syntax problem? Seems like the above
example should be:
open file blabla for reading
-- read the last 100 bytes (or last 99?)
#read from file blabla for -100
read from file blabla at -100 for 100
put the result into r
put it into x
close file blabla
FWIW. I didn't test my suggestion, so be careful!
Phil
> Unfortunately I never got an answer back, MC crashed...
> No result, no error...
>
> I dont want to resort to external programs (tail.exe) to do this...
> Does anyone have a standard scripted solution?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Xavier
>
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