On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:10 -0400, Richard Lee wrote: > There is no way to read say last 10 MB of the file or something? It's > very surprising why no such thing exists.. >
No, it's not. It is a text file, not a fixed-sized record fix. There is no way to compute where the lines of text start. And with today's computers, 10 MB of text is trivial. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn When I was in college, my Karate instructor said, "The first hundred are easy." Since then, I discovered he'd lied. Life's too big to describe in hundreds. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/