Reading text file backwards

The easiest way is like this:

var
  TheFile : TStringList;
  i : integer;

begin
  TheFile := TStringList.Create;
  TheFile.LoadFromFile('FileName.txt');
  for I := TheFile.lines.count - 1 downto 0 do
    begin
      //Do stuff with TheFile.lines[i]...
    end;
  TheFile.Free;
end;

Cheers,

Raymond.  

Thanks Wilson...
Your solution will work with a lot of situations...however, i dont think
it will work when i have a gigantic text file..
i wanted to read a page at a time....
i guess i'm more concerned about trying to keep track of where the pointer
is pointing to....i am trying to write a program to read a report that was
generated on a UNIX machine..each page on the report has a form feed chr(12) or #12
i want to read a page at a time until i hit the form feed character...
when the user pressed page down i want to read the next page starting from
the form feed character until the next form feed character - 1 line. if the user
pressed page up then i want to read the previous page...possible reading backwards
or repositioning the pointer and read from that point on.

make any sense?

Thanks again!!!!!

p.s.  some reports may be over a thousand pages in size....thats why i cant
read it all one time.....

I forgot something.. make sure that the constant MAXLINELENGTH is appropriate..

and yes.. you can use this in a unix environment .. and if you want to read a page at a time, exchange the #10 with a #12 - that's all!

Peter (ptiemann2)