Jamie,
first of all I would read the file from top to bottom and then reverse my array to
change the order of the entries. Then on every line that you read back I would do a
comparison to check if I reached the piece of code you talked about that references
the end of the input.
I'd use
fore
> is there a way to tell the program to
> "read until you see this line and
> place everything you have read up to
> that line into @array"
# yes.
my @lines = ();
open IN, "somefile" or die $!;
while () {
last if /some_match/;
pusdh @lines, $_;
}
close IN;
> could this start at the bottom of