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[jr8rdt]

I am trying to do some data streaming massaging. to be exact I am capturing a log file and use it as an input, do some calculation and massaging, and output the results.
how can I do that.

I have tried with

open(INFILE, outputfile.txt);
while (<INFILE>) {

blah
blah
}

this won't work because the program will use the file at the time the program runs. as you know since outputfile.txt is a log file from another application it will grow/have new data every second.

help

 

[travs69]

Maybe..

http://search.cpan.org/~mgrabnar/File-Tail-0.99.3/Tail.pm

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