Read last line of STDOUT

Question

I am executing a program through Process.Start(). I tried redirecting the output to get the lines.

For now, however, I only need the last line.

Is there a way to read the last line only or do I still need to the whole redirectStandaroutput = false; etc?

Is there a simpler way?

If I have to go by the process.Redirect(), I tried following the examples on MSDN and other sources with outputdatareceived event, but my output only gets written to the console at the end and is not async.

Answer 1

Once you use process.Start() the only way to read output that I know is to use .RedirectStandardInput = true;. And as Standart output is a stream object, last line could be read only by reading whole stream.

BTW proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd() will hang your thread untill process will exit, and if you'll get any promts during reading - your app will hang up.