Forums Scripts & Popups write txt file in reverse order

if i want to add entries to a text file they get added as

entry1
entry2
entry3

etc.

so say i want to read this file and get info from matching line

but say item1 has info in entry2

and then an update occurred and the new info for item1 is in entry3

but as it has found the info in entry2 it will show that

so can I write or read the file in reverse order?

thanks

sure you can read in reverse order with $read

alias revorder {
var %x = $lines(mytext.txt)
while (%x >= 1) { echo -a $read(mytext.txt,%x) | dec %x }
}

You can write to any line... to write in "reverse" order, use:

/write -il1 file.txt data

thanks guys - i'll try thr write first