[Scilab-users] Scan file backward from the end?

[Antoine Monmayrant]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 23.43 CET, Serge Steer <serge.steer at inria.fr> wrote: 
 
> If you know the approximate size of the footer in number of bytes (assume N greater than it) you can try to set the pointer N bytes before  the end of file using the 
> u=mopen("myfile");
> mseek(-N,u,'end')
> then read the rest with
> mgetl(-1,u)
> 
> Serge

Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try today.

Cheers,

Antoine