Hello Friends,

I need to get the last 100 lines of a log file and display it in a text area. For this I use a filehandle to open the file and then copy the contents of the file to an array. I get the total number of lines, then display the last 100 lines. When I run this, I get an out of memory message in the textarea.

Below is the code: 

$lineno=100;
#Opening file
    open(FILE, "$file") or die "Can't find $file \n";

    #Transfer contents of file to array
    @lines = <FILE>;

    #Count number of lines in the file
    $num = @lines;
    for (; $lineno > 0; $lineno--)
    {
        #Get last lines from the file and print them
        @tail = @lines[$num - $lineno];
        print(@tail);
    }
    close(FILE);

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