From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-07-23T00:42:48+09:00
Subject: Re: finding last line in a file

On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Urabe Shyouhei wrote:

> (2010/07/22 23:33), Xavier Noria wrote:
>> 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
> 
> And says nothing about multiligualization because M17N cannot be achieved by the approach, theoretically.

Yes, I wrote it before Ruby 1.9's m17n engine.  I only use it on ASCII logs, where it works fine.  I would not recommend it for encoded data.

James Edward Gray II