Is there a simple way to read in just the last line of a file? The situation is a log file which contains approx 60 lines of data and I need to put the last line into a string variable in order to perform some actions based on data pulled using a GetToken on the string.

Also, this has to be done without looping through the entire file. That's what I'm doing currently and it is taking too long when working with about 1600 files. Thanks!

: Is there a simple way to read in just the last line of a file? The situation
: is a log file which contains approx 60 lines of data and I need to put the
: last line into a string variable in order to perform some actions based on
: data pulled using a GetToken on the string.

Is the line lenght fixed?

: Also, this has to be done without looping through the entire file. That's
: what I'm doing currently and it is taking too long when working with about
: 1600 files. Thanks!

Try using FileCompare to compare your file against an empty file. This will give you the number of "new" lines, then you can use FileReadLine to read the last line only (internally it does the same read loop, but it should do it many times faster than in JAL).

: Is there a simple way to read in just the last line of a file? The situation
: is a log file which contains approx 60 lines of data and I need to put the
: last line into a string variable in order to perform some actions based on
: data pulled using a GetToken on the string.

: Is the line lenght fixed?

No, it's variable. The data in the log file is based of a filtered dump of the NT application log and contains a variable number of lines and number of characters per line. As it is, I'm looping through the file with filereads until I get to the EOF, then I use GetToken on the last string to separate the line into the variables I need.

Then please see my second post in this thread

: No, it's variable. The data in the log file is based of a filtered dump of
: the NT application log and contains a variable number of lines and number
: of characters per line. As it is, I'm looping through the file with
: filereads until I get to the EOF, then I use GetToken on the last string
: to separate the line into the variables I need.