Reading Last Line of Log

fightcancer · Post by **fightcancer** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:15 pm

What's the easiest way to read the last line of a text log file please?

Is there some combo of ReadFile, Separate and ReadLn I can use? Thanks.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:45 pm

ReadFile>c:\bla\logfile.log,FullFile
Separate>FullFile,CRLF,Lines
Let>last=Lines_%Lines_Count%
MessageModal>last

fightcancer · Post by **fightcancer** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:46 pm

Awesome! Thanks M!

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:09 pm

Does this help?
From one of my earlier postings in July 2006

The old DOS "FIND" command may work for you.

Try this from a command line:
FIND "qqq" c:\path\file.txt /v /c

You will get two lines back with a count of all the lines that do not contain "qqq" on the second line.

If that works for you then you can run that with Run Program command:

Run Program>command.com /c FIND "qqq" C:\path\file.txt /v /c > c:\path\lines.txt
ReadLn>c:\path\lines.txt,2,result
MessageModal>Line count = %result%
//You can use other lines to strip out everything to the left of the colon in %result%

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Edited: Hmm too slow today. There was no reply when I started this. Marcus' solution is much better.