I've never seen any such thing, but I've done similar things a lot. I'd say malloc/read the whole file in and use a decrementing pointer to return the "previous" character.
-- Andrew Duane Juniper Networks 978-589-0551 10 Technology Park Dr adu...@juniper.net Westford, MA 01886-3418 ________________________________________ From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Julian H. Stacey [j...@berklix.com] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:32 PM To: hack...@freebsd.org Subject: reverse of getchar() read() open() fopen() ? Hi hackers@, Do we have C libraries with reverse of getchar() [ & maybe read() ] & fopen() [ & maybe open() ] etc, to read from end of file toward beginning ? I dont see anything in the See Also sections. I'm not looking to write, just read. I'm looking for something that returns last char in file as first etc, I'm not interested in wchars etc, I could write some C functions, with seek etc & probably will, if none exist, but no point if they already exist ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
