On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Mr. Shawn H. Corey
<shawnhcorey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> Sadly, even ReadBackwards in no magic bullet. (And BTW, it should be
> ReadBackward.)
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No, it is File::ReadBackwards. If you are complaining about the
regionalism "backwards", well I bet I can find you using at least one.
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> It still has to go through the entire file and mark the offsets to the
> start of every line.
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No, you obviously don't know how it is implemented. It seeks to the
end of the file and reads it into a buffer where it searches for line
endings. It does not read the entire file until you reach the first
line.
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Chas. Owens
wonkden.net
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