in reply to Is there a way to read a file backwards?
If you're not worried about memory consumption, you could just do:
my @reverse_lines = reverse <FH>;
This will read the whole file into memory, and is thus not very memory efficient, but it is probably the simplest way to do what you want.
UPDATE: Whoops, that'll teach me to not read closely enough; I just noticed you said you didn't want to read the whole file; sorry. :\
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