Re: Delete characters

"imphasing" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> now, does anyone know how I would delete all but the LAST 500 lines of
> a text file?

Use a circular buffer. Or File::ReadBackwards, I guess.

-=Eric
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Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million
typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare.
-- Blair Houghton.
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