From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2010-07-22T23:33:24+09:00
Subject: Re: finding last line in a file

Check the elif gem, by James Edward Gray II.

It is a port of File::ReadBackwards, whose documentation explains the approach:

    http://search.cpan.org/~uri/File-ReadBackwards-1.04/ReadBackwards.pm#DESIGN

-- fxn