need to read only the last 1000 characters of a file.

[Guest]

Hello,

I nead help.

 

this command:

FileRead("database.txt",1000)

can read the first 1000 characters of the file.

but i need to read the only last 1000 characters and i don't see this option in the function.

i know that i can read the whole file and then use

StringRight($fileread,1000)

but in this way the script will load a lot of unnecessary data to the memory so it will take more memory and it also will take more time to read the file..

 

i need to read directly the last 1000 characters..

how can i do this?

thanks for helpers!

Edited February 7, 2014 by Guest

[nullschritt]

I think there is a way to do this using winapi functions. You cannot achieve this result with the normal fileread function.

[jdelaney]

try this:

$hFile = FileOpen("file.txt")
FileSetPos($hFile,-1000,$FILE_END)
$string = FileRead($hFile,1000)
ConsoleWrite(StringLen($string) & " " & $string & @CRLF)





I created a dummy file, with multi thousands of chars...all asdf...at the end, i put in string=last

the above outputs last (as the last chars) and count of 1000

Edited February 7, 2014 by jdelaney

[Guest]

I think there is a way to do this using winapi functions. You cannot achieve this result with the normal fileread function.

 

Where?

I looked in the UDF and I have not found.

 

 

try this:

$hFile = FileOpen("file.txt")

FileSetPos($hFile,-1000,$FILE_END)

$string = FileRead($hFile,1000)

ConsoleWrite(StringLen($string) & " " & $string & @CRLF)

 

 

From looking at your code, it does not matter what you do later ..

At first you read the whole file with FileOpen("file.txt") and that's exactly what I do not want to do.

EDIT:

Oops, I did not see properly before.

I'll check your code

Edited February 7, 2014 by Guest

[jdelaney]

Well, it cuts out the memory usage to hold all that data from your FileRead string, at least.

The string from mine will limit to only 1k chars.

[jchd]

Gil900,

FileOpen doesn't read he file!

[Guest]

Gil900,

FileOpen doesn't read he file!

I know.

I edited my response.

I just didn't saw good .. (I thought I saw FileRead instead FileOpen)

jdelaney, thank you.

I checked your code and it does exactly what I want and it works!

Thanks

Edited February 7, 2014 by Guest

[nullschritt]

try this:

$hFile = FileOpen("file.txt")
FileSetPos($hFile,-1000,$FILE_END)
$string = FileRead($hFile,1000)
ConsoleWrite(StringLen($string) & " " & $string & @CRLF)





I created a dummy file, with multi thousands of chars...all asdf...at the end, i put in string=last

the above outputs last (as the last chars) and count of 1000

Oh, well, I guess I didn't know what I was talking about in this case. Never seen the filesetpos() function used before.