How to work with EOF?

[Anon]

Hello all,

How does one find the last 10 records FROM the EOF of a flat file?

I can find the last record...but from there, how do you get the other 9 records above it?

Thanks in advance!

gary

[brianroy]

Gary,

You'll want to use the $fp = file(strFileName);

This returns an array of the lines in the file. You can then use count($fp) to get the total number of lines (records) in the file.

for ($i=(count($fp)-1); $i>=((count($fp)-1) - 10); $i--);

is the loop structure. $fp[$i] should return the line in each loop iteration.

Hope this helps!

Brian Roy