Re: opening a big file

Richard Lee wrote:
> Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
>>
>> Sadly, even ReadBackwards in no magic bullet.  (And BTW, it should be
>> ReadBackward.)
>>
>> It still has to go through the entire file and mark the offsets to the
>> start of every line.
>>
>> The best way to do this is just to bite the bullet and do it.
> 
> There is no way to read say last 10 MB of the file or something? It's 
> very surprising why no such thing exists..

Sure, just seek() to the last 10 MB position and start reading from there.


John
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