Hello all, I was myself having some trouble to get information from the last lines of a file without having to go through the whole thing to get the, and stumbled upon this topic, and while reading I had the following idea: 
open (FILE, $file);
my @file = <FILE>;
close FILE;
for (my $count = ( (scalar @file) -1); $count >= 0; $count--){
#my $line = $file[count]; optional
   # do what you gotta do

   # to end the loop abruptly, just do: $count = -1; 
   # This can be done from an else (if you are searching
   # patters with if's. 
   #Or you can use another, increasing counter, so you can
   # choose the number of lines to look at, say 12, then:
   # if ($count_2 > 12) {$count = -1}
}

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I'd like advice and critics on the code above, what say you Monks? ps: I'm still a newbie, and haven't tried the code for time or memory use(Don't know how).

In reply to Re: Performing a tail(1) in Perl (reading the last N lines of a file) by Caio
in thread Performing a tail(1) in Perl (reading the last N lines of a file) by grinder

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