reading a file in reverse

sandav

(Posted 2007) [#1]

Is there any way to read a stream starting with the last line, and moving towards the first?

Perturbatio

(Posted 2007) [#2]

seek to the end minus the size of the value you want to read (byte=1, int=4, etc).
then just work backwards?

grable

(Posted 2007) [#3]

Or put each line in a TList and reverse it.