How can I read lines from the end of file in Perl?

Question

I am working on a Perl script to read CSV file and do some calculations. CSV file has only two columns, something like below.

One Two
1.00 44.000
3.00 55.000         


        

Answer 1

I've wrote quick backward file search using the following code on pure Perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use warnings;
use strict;
my ($file, $num_of_lines) = @ARGV;

my $count = 0;
my $filesize = -s $file; # filesize used to control reaching the start of file while reading it backward
my $offset = -2; # skip two last characters: \n and ^Z in the end of file

open F, $file or die "Can't read $file: $!\n";

while (abs($offset) < $filesize) {
    my $line = "";
    # we need to check the start of the file for seek in mode "2" 
    # as it continues to output data in revers order even when out of file range reached
    while (abs($offset) < $filesize) {
        seek F, $offset, 2;     # because of negative $offset & "2" - it will seek backward
        $offset -= 1;           # move back the counter
        my $char = getc F;
        last if $char eq "\n"; # catch the whole line if reached
        $line = $char . $line; # otherwise we have next character for current line
    }

    # got the next line!
    print $line, "\n";

    # exit the loop if we are done
    $count++;
    last if $count > $num_of_lines;
}

and run this script like:

$ get-x-lines-from-end.pl ./myhugefile.log 200