How to read last “n” lines of log file

Question

need a snippet of code which would read out last \"n lines\" of a log file. I came up with the following code from the net.I am kinda new to C sharp. Since the log file migh

Answer 1

A friend of mine uses this method (BackwardReader can be found here):

public static IList GetLogTail(string logname, string numrows)
{
    int lineCnt = 1;
    List lines = new List();
    int maxLines;

    if (!int.TryParse(numrows, out maxLines))
    {
        maxLines = 100;
    }

    string logFile = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/" + logname);

    BackwardReader br = new BackwardReader(logFile);
    while (!br.SOF)
    {
        string line = br.Readline();
        lines.Add(line + System.Environment.NewLine);
        if (lineCnt == maxLines) break;
        lineCnt++;
    }
    lines.Reverse();
    return lines;
}