Reading File in Backwards

Hi,

I have a text file which I would like to read from the end and display only
a certain number of records. Is there any way of doing this?

Thanks,
Shahid

InStrRev()


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"Shahid Juma" <shahid319REMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a text file which I would like to read from the end and display
> only
> a certain number of records. Is there any way of doing this?
>
> Thanks,
> Shahid
>
>

Doesn't this function just return the last occurence? I am not doing a
search, what I want to do is read the last entry in the file and backwards
towards the top....

Shahid

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_darkfalz.com> wrote in message
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> InStrRev()
>
>
> --
> Curt Christianson
> Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
> Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
> Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
>
>
> "Shahid Juma" <shahid319REMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ufsrvBS6EHA.1120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... 
>
>

How large is the file?  If not too big then you might consider reading in
the entire file, doing a split on newline and then taking the last entries
in the resulting array.

Tim.


"Shahid Juma" <shahid319REMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a text file which I would like to read from the end and display
only
> a certain number of records. Is there any way of doing this?
>
> Thanks,
> Shahid
>
>

<%
Const fRead = 1, fWrite = 2, fAppend = 8
Dim objFSO, objIStream
Dim strLine, strPrintLine, strFile
Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strFile = Server.MapPath("thefile.txt")
Set objIStream = objFSO.OpenTextFDile(strFile, fRead, False)
Do While NOT objIStream.AtEndOfStream
strLine = objIStream.ReadLine
strPrintLine = strLine + "<br/>" + strPrintLine
iCounter = iCounter + 1
Loop
objIStream.Close
Set objIStream = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
Response.Write strPrintLine
%>

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"Shahid Juma" <shahid319REMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Doesn't this function just return the last occurence? I am not doing a
> search, what I want to do is read the last entry in the file and backwards
> towards the top....
>
> Shahid
>
> "Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_darkfalz.com> wrote in message
> news:uwvt2CS6EHA.2552@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... 
>
>

Is there a seperator in the file? space, comma, etc?
If so just use Split and loop backwards through the array

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Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
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Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com


"Shahid Juma" <shahid319REMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OZjPfIS6EHA.3700@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Doesn't this function just return the last occurence? I am not doing a
> search, what I want to do is read the last entry in the file and backwards
> towards the top....
>
> Shahid
>
> "Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_darkfalz.com> wrote in message
> news:uwvt2CS6EHA.2552@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... 
>
>

Shahid Juma wrote:
> I have a text file which I would like to read from the end and
> display only a certain number of records. Is there any way of doing
> this?

I assume you don't want to reverse the contents of each line, but rather the
order of the lines:
var fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"),
src = fso.OpenTextFile("YourSourceFile.txt").ReadAll(),
rows = src.split("\r\n").reverse()

At this point, you can either write the text file back:
fso.CreateTextFile("Output.txt",true).Write(rows.join("\r\n"))

Or display it online:
<TABLE><TR><TD><%=rows.join("</TD><TR><TR><TD>")%></TD></TR></TABLE>


To get the last 10 lines only, modify the [rows] assignment:
rows = src.split("\r\n").slice(-10).reverse()


FileSystemObject
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...br />
ence.asp
Array.join()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...56jsmthjoin.asp
Array.reverse()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...smthreverse.asp
Array.slice()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...6jsmthsplit.asp


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I wrote:
> FileSystemObject
>
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>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...spArray.reverse()[colo
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...y.sl
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For some reason, OE-QuoteFix did the above (though it looks fine in the
source). It should look like this:

FileSystemObject
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...br />
ence.asp

Array.join()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...56jsmthjoin.asp

Array.reverse()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...smthreverse.asp

Array.slice()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...6jsmthsplit.asp



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