I'm fairly new all this, but I feel like I'm pretty close to making this work, I just need a little help! I want to create a DLL which can read and return the last line in a file that is open in another application. This is what my code looks like, I just don't know what to put in the while statement.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.IO;
namespace SharedAccess
{
public class ReadShare {
static void Main(string path) {
FileStream stream = File.Open(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream);
while (!reader.EndOfStream)
{
//What goes here?
}
}
}
}
To read last line,
var lastLine = File.ReadLines("YourFileName").Last();
If it's a large File
public static String ReadLastLine(string path)
{
return ReadLastLine(path, Encoding.ASCII, "\n");
}
public static String ReadLastLine(string path, Encoding encoding, string newline)
{
int charsize = encoding.GetByteCount("\n");
byte[] buffer = encoding.GetBytes(newline);
using (FileStream stream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open))
{
long endpos = stream.Length / charsize;
for (long pos = charsize; pos < endpos; pos += charsize)
{
stream.Seek(-pos, SeekOrigin.End);
stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
if (encoding.GetString(buffer) == newline)
{
buffer = new byte[stream.Length - stream.Position];
stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
return encoding.GetString(buffer);
}
}
}
return null;
}
I refered here, How to read only last line of big text file