How to read a text file reversely with iterator in C#

Question

I need to process a large file, around 400K lines and 200 M. But sometimes I have to process from bottom up. How can I use iterator (yield return) here? Basically I don\'t l

Answer 1

I also add my solution. After reading some answers, nothing really fit to my case. I'm reading byte by byte from from behind until I find a LineFeed, then I'm returing the collected bytes as string, without using buffering.

Usage:

var reader = new ReverseTextReader(path);
while (!reader.EndOfStream)
{
    Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadLine());  
}

Implementation:

public class ReverseTextReader
{
    private const int LineFeedLf = 10;
    private const int LineFeedCr = 13;
    private readonly Stream _stream;
    private readonly Encoding _encoding;

    public bool EndOfStream => _stream.Position == 0;

    public ReverseTextReader(Stream stream, Encoding encoding)
    {
        _stream = stream;
        _encoding = encoding;
        _stream.Position = _stream.Length;
    }

    public string ReadLine()
    {
        if (_stream.Position == 0) return null;

        var line = new List();
        var endOfLine = false;
        while (!endOfLine)
        {
            var b = _stream.ReadByteFromBehind();

            if (b == -1 || b == LineFeedLf)
            {
                endOfLine = true;
            } 
            line.Add(Convert.ToByte(b));
        }

        line.Reverse();
        return _encoding.GetString(line.ToArray());
    }
}

public static class StreamExtensions
{
    public static int ReadByteFromBehind(this Stream stream)
    {
        if (stream.Position == 0) return -1;

        stream.Position = stream.Position - 1;
        var value = stream.ReadByte();
        stream.Position = stream.Position - 1;
        return value;
    }
}