Re: Simulating UNIX's "tail" in core Perl

in reply to Simulating UNIX's "tail" in core Perl

well, if you're not too worried about file size, just read the whole file into an array, and pop() off as many lines as you need. Course, that won't be the most optimal solution on large files. i.e.

my @file = <FILE>;
for( my $i=0; $i<$MAXLINES; $i++ ) {
    print pop @file;
}
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Re: Re: Simulating UNIX's "tail" in core Perl by hurstdog (Initiate) on Mar 07, 2001 at 05:40 UTC
hmm... guess I shoulda read you're original post more clearly, mostly the part about how the file will be "really large" ;-) oh well...	[reply]

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