I gave this one a try first. The couple snags I ran into were that you end up with 4 lines instead of five, as well as in reverse order. I wasn't very specific about sort order, sorry about that.

The program outputs lines in the order of line 1,2,3,4,5 and just shoves things into the front so it will be displayed on top in the html page. Before removing the last line, the file would look like:

line 1
line 5
line 4
line 3
line 2
line 1

and end in:

line 1
line 5
line 4
line 3
line 2

The goal is to make it so the file doesn't keep growing in this endless process, and to keep the most recent on top as it is a link to the most recent results.

Being that I'm new to perl, this was the only suggestion I've been able to try so far. I'll continue reading to see if I can figure out the other suggestions and give them a shot.

Thank you very much.
^_^

In reply to Re^2: truncating a text file by Anonymous Monk
in thread truncating a text file by dankichi

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