Hello FPC-Pascal,
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 1:09:34 AM, you wrote:
RW> On 04/11/2011 12:32 PM, John Lee wrote:
>> Need to read the last 4 lines (txt) of a very large log file 100M
>> bytes, 100k lines or more lots of times - of course I can read
RW> Hmm, could first have the reader enumerate th
So the idea is to open file eg as file of array [1:65536] of char or
something similar, seek & read to end of file, then go through the last
array converting to strings by finding crlfs correct? Is this the simplest
way? If not any outline code?
John
On , José Mejuto wrote:
Hello FPC-Pas
Hello FPC-Pascal,
Monday, April 11, 2011, 7:55:01 PM, you wrote:
>> The idea is easy, instead reading forward, you read backwards in
>> blocks of, say, 64 Kb and count lines back. If not enougth lines you
>> insert another 64 Kb before and so on. Average line is usually less
>> than 100 bytes, so
