Read a text file from bottom to top??

[bebandit]

I need to read a long text file from the bottom to the top. (ie I need to read the last line first and then the second to last line....etc) Is there any optimized code out there to do this?

Thanks,
Bebandit

[nemaroller]

HOw big are the text files?


I could think of a few ways to do this... the performance of the chosen method really hinges on what else needs to be done, how big the files are...etc.

You could just you a seekable stream and keep moving back one byte a time...

You could load the contents of a text file into an array using split, then reverse the array...

a host of about 3 other options too...