You need to seek on a file handle to jump to the end.

Since its byte and not line based you'll need to read a sufficiently big trailing chunk into a line array and take the last two entries. (and if the chunk wasn't big enough try a bigger one )

Search the archives, similar questions have been asked before and adjust the code to your needs.

> Ideally, I would like to store the second-to-last line to ...

Ideally someone would bring me now a banana split and a hot espresso to my sofa...

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

update

... or a strudel with vanilla ice cream... Hmm! :)

update

No espresso yet? Hence no tip! :(

But at least a link http://www.google.com/search?q=read+last+n+lines+of+a+file+perl+site:www.perlmonks.org

In reply to Re: How can I grab the last 2 lines of a file? by LanX
in thread How can I grab the last 2 lines of a file? by Anonymous Monk

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