Sorry my bad, this doesn't work with lines as Andy Lester pointed out. When i tested it i had a file with one char on each line. My apologies :(
Toby -----Original Message----- From: Toby Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: seek function call change: seek(LOG,0,2); to: seek(LOG,-1,2); hth toby -----Original Message----- From: William Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: seek function call Hi all, I have a quick question about seek(). If I have a file with 100 lines of data and I want to seek to the last line of the file and read it. How is this done? Below is what I'm trying to do. A little help please. File x.pl: aaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbb ccccccccc ddddddddd eeeeeeeee open(LOG,"x.pl"); seek(LOG,0,2); # I thought 2 meant the end of the file. $line=<LOG>; print"$line": close(LOG); William Black _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
