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Re: Re: Performing a tail(1) in Perl (reading the last N lines of a file)

by Anonymous Monk
on Oct 23, 2002 at 20:06 UTC ( [id://207513]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Performing a tail(1) in Perl (reading the last N lines of a file)
in thread Performing a tail(1) in Perl (reading the last N lines of a file)

Have you considered modifying File::Tail to defer reading the file such that if the only subscripts ever given to the tied array are negative, it reads the file backwards? Not asking for the feature; just throwing out ideas.
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