Re: how to read a text file backwards?

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how to read a text file backwards?

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Re: how to read a text file backwards?

May 15th, 2007

Read it forward, store it in a reversible container, and then walk through the container backward. Or if you know the exact length of each line, you could open the file as binary and use fseek with read to get the lines in reverse. Or you could physically reverse the file before reading it. Or you could use recursion, but that's an exceptionally poor solution.