BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  FileRead and FileSeek          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> C++ Builder (Students) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message DavideP Guest Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:55 pm    Post subject: FileRead and FileSeek Hi, everybody. I've a tricky question. How can read fastly and cleverly the *last* line of a file, using FileRead and FileSeek functions? Alternatively, there is a fast and smart method? Thanks in advance. Davide Back to top Remy Lebeau (TeamB) Guest Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:37 pm    Post subject: Re: FileRead and FileSeek "DavideP" <no.spam (AT) here (DOT) plz> wrote in message news:4611197e$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: How can read fastly and cleverly the *last* line of a file, using FileRead and FileSeek functions? Unless the file has fixed-length lines that are all the same length, then there is no direct way to determine where the last line is located. You would have to scan through the file forwards from start to end until you find the last linebreak, or scan backwards until you find the first line break. Gambit Back to top Ed Mulroy Guest Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:23 pm    Post subject: Re: FileRead and FileSeek At times in the past I have had to do that. I used a technique similar to what Remy Lebeau told you. I seeked to the end of the file -2048, read a 2048 byte buffer, searched back from the end to find the end of the line character (the ending '.', '?' '!') or the last alpha-numeric (some people omit the punctuation on the last line of a paragraph). I then seeked back to find the end of line character before that. The start of the last line is then the first non-blank character going forward from that second end of line. .. Ed Quote: DavideP wrote in message news:4611197e$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Hi, everybody. I've a tricky question. How can read fastly and cleverly the *last* line of a file, using FileRead and FileSeek functions? Alternatively, there is a fast and smart method? 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