From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2001-03-25T23:10:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13197] Re: Reading a file backwards

> Hi Dan,
>
> perhaps something like this is what you want?
>
> synack@eugene:~/tmp/fox-0.99.166/textedit$ cat > testFile
> line 1
> line 2
> line 3
> synack@eugene:~/tmp/fox-0.99.166/textedit$ irb
> irb(main):001:0> f = File.new("testFile")
> #<File:0x402281d4>
> irb(main):002:0> f.readlines.reverse.each { |line| p line }
> "line 3\n"
> "line 2\n"
> "line 1\n"
> ["line 3\n", "line 2\n", "line 1\n"]
>
> Hope this helps you some.
>
> - --
> Signed,
> Holden Glova

Ah, crud - I forgot to mention that I *do not* want to read the entire file
into memory, which the readlines method appears to do (unless I'm mistaken).
I also would like to avoid tricks like creating temporary files.

Thanks again.

Dan