Dear Wise Monks,

I'm trying to parse and validate text file content. For the first line and last line alone validation will be different.

I am using following code to find the last line of the file. 

open(FILE, "< $file") or die "can't open $file: $!";
$count++ while <FILE>;
# $count now holds the number of lines read

open(FILE, "< $file") or die "can't open $file: $!";
for ($i=0; <FILE>; $i++) { 
     if ($i == $count) {
        # Validate last line
     }
}

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Is there any best way to find the last line of the file?

In reply to Find last line in Text file parsing by selva

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