[SOLVED] reading backwards

[-entropyman]

Hello,

 

I was just wondering if it would be possible to read a file backwards.  For example I am reading a file using file_get_contents and outputting all the line matches that contain the results.  Is there a way to read the file backwards, ie the result that would be return last normally would now return first?  Or order the results as such?  Any ideas?

 

Thanks

 

 

[.josh]

if you're doing it line by line you could use file() instead of file_get_contents. That will read your entire file and put it into an array (one line per element) instead of a giant string like what file_get_contents does.  Then you can array_reverse the array and loop through it.

[tibberous]

If you wanted to do it literally, you could use strrev, which is perhaps the most useless function in the whole core.

[-entropyman]

worked perfectly, thank you crayon