SPUG: Parsing Huge Files
DeRykus, Charles E
charles.e.derykus at boeing.com
Wed Nov 28 10:17:26 PST 2007
> Is there a faster execution hook, where I can get last 1000 lines of
> huge file, without skipping to the end of file.
...
>> I would recommend File::ReadBackwards ! (it is like the "tac"
program
>> in that it will read the file in reverse line order) - so you need to
take that >> into account - used it to read in the last 1000 lines then
perhaps you will
>> reverse() the array you fetch.
>> If you don't want to install it from CPAN you could open a pipe from
"tac|"
>> or just "tail -1000".
I'd second File::Backwards. Tie::File which became part of the
Perl distro (recent versions) would undoubtedly be slower but
the interface might be a tad easier.
--
Charles DeRykus
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