How to read a text file reversely with iterator in C#

Question

I need to process a large file, around 400K lines and 200 M. But sometimes I have to process from bottom up. How can I use iterator (yield return) here? Basically I don\'t l

Answer 1

I know this post is very old but as I couldn't find how to use the most voted solution, I finally found this: here is the best answer I found with a low memory cost in VB and C#

http://www.blakepell.com/2010-11-29-backward-file-reader-vb-csharp-source

Hope, I'll help others with that because it tooks me hours to finally find this post!

[Edit]

Here is the c# code :

//*********************************************************************************************************************************
//
//             Class:  BackwardReader
//      Initial Date:  11/29/2010
//     Last Modified:  11/29/2010
//     Programmer(s):  Original C# Source - the_real_herminator
//                     http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/9acdde1a-03cd-4018-9f87-6e201d8f5d09
//                     VB Converstion - Blake Pell
//
//*********************************************************************************************************************************

using System.Text;
using System.IO;
public class BackwardReader
{
    private string path;
    private FileStream fs = null;
    public BackwardReader(string path)
    {
        this.path = path;
        fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);
        fs.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End);
    }
    public string Readline()
    {
        byte[] line;
        byte[] text = new byte[1];
        long position = 0;
        int count;
        fs.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Current);
        position = fs.Position;
        //do we have trailing rn?
        if (fs.Length > 1)
        {
            byte[] vagnretur = new byte[2];
            fs.Seek(-2, SeekOrigin.Current);
            fs.Read(vagnretur, 0, 2);
            if (ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(vagnretur).Equals("rn"))
            {
                //move it back
                fs.Seek(-2, SeekOrigin.Current);
                position = fs.Position;
            }
        }
        while (fs.Position > 0)
        {
            text.Initialize();
            //read one char
            fs.Read(text, 0, 1);
            string asciiText = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(text);
            //moveback to the charachter before
            fs.Seek(-2, SeekOrigin.Current);
            if (asciiText.Equals("n"))
            {
                fs.Read(text, 0, 1);
                asciiText = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(text);
                if (asciiText.Equals("r"))
                {
                    fs.Seek(1, SeekOrigin.Current);
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        count = int.Parse((position - fs.Position).ToString());
        line = new byte[count];
        fs.Read(line, 0, count);
        fs.Seek(-count, SeekOrigin.Current);
        return ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(line);
    }
    public bool SOF
    {
        get
        {
            return fs.Position == 0;
        }
    }
    public void Close()
    {
        fs.Close();
    }
}