Copy the Last Line of a .txt file

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Re: Copy the Last Line of a .txt file

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trags3 wrote: Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:00 pm To accomplish this I want to read the last line in the appropriate file and populate the card with the data.
If the goal is simply to get the last line of a file, assuming you have the path to the file already in a variable, all you should need is

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      put the last line of url("File:" & myFilePath) into myVariable 
      # this assumes you already have a routine to place the variable items into their respective fields
The above code with a CSV file of 1GB in size completed in 746 milliseconds (including putting the information into fields).
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Re: Copy the Last Line of a .txt file

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Err, but 18 months later?
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Re: Copy the Last Line of a .txt file

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richmond62 wrote: Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:00 pm Err, but 18 months later?
I wasn't here for a long LONG time (and really still am not), however, I did not resurrect this thread and bring it to my own attention, the post that did that was made by the OP, 1 day before my reply.
Re: Copy the Last Line of a .txt file
by trags3 » Tue Mar 11, 2025 3:48 pm
I just read through a thread brought to the surface again as is my habit.
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