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print to file not working

by grashoper (Monk)
on Apr 20, 2009 at 17:23 UTC ( [id://758761]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

grashoper has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Probably my fault cause I must be doing something dumb can't seem to find it. I want to count the number of times a file is restarted, this is to do some basic logging on attempts to automate a process, problem is only one value is being recorded in my file counter.txt, I also want errors to be logged if they occur
#!/usr/bin/perl use win32::OLE qw(in); $search="Vuser Terminated"; open(INFO, "E:\\Mibor_TimingTest\\Mibor\\output.txt"); @array=<INFO>; close (INFO); foreach $line(@array){ if ($line =~ /$search/) { print "found $line"; $i=1; open(COUNT, ">>","c:\\perl\\scripts\\counter.txt")|| die "I cannot ope +n the file"; print (COUNT "$i"); @array2=<COUNT>; foreach $line(@array2){ if ($line) { print (COUNT "$i++"); close(COUNT); } else { print "$line \n"; } } run_code; my $error = run_code('c:\\perl\\scripts\\killp.pl'); print "Run code failed, err msg:\n$error" if $error; # # add error handling code here for if vugen fails to die.. # # # sub run_code { $path="c:\\perl\\scripts"; my $path = shift; open(CODE, $path) || return "Oops: $path $!\n"; local $/; my $code = <CODE>; eval $code; return $@; } } }

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Re: print to file not working
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 20, 2009 at 17:25 UTC

    Then maybe you should turn on warnings!

    You're reading from a file you've opened for writing.

    open(CODE, "c:\\...\\killp.pl") doesn't execute that file, it opens it for reading. The whole of run_code attempts to replicate do or system.

Re: print to file not working
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2009 at 06:39 UTC
    | V use win32::OLE qw(in); ^ |
    C:\>perl -e"use win32::OLE qw(in); print in()" Undefined subroutine &main::in called at -e line 1. C:\>perl -e"use Win32::OLE qw(in); print in()" C:\>
      I am looking to capture the output of a log file which is being generated by another process into a new text file,initially I just want to be able to see the errors I am getting, but eventually I will want to be able to parse the file as it is being created for specific error messages. how do I do this will something like this work? taken from example in synopsis from file tail. $name? shouldn't this be defined somewhere?
      use File::Tail; use win32::OLE qw(in); $file=File::Tail->new("E:\\mibor_timingtest\\mibor\\output.txt"); while (defined($line=$file->read)) { print "$line"; } use File::Tail; $file=File::Tail->new(name=>$name, maxinterval=>300, adjustafter=>7) +; while (defined($line=$file->read)) { open(OUT ">>", "c:\\test.txt"); print(OUT "$line"); } sub_do_something{ use win32::OLE qw(in); $search="stuff2searchfor"; open(OUT, "c:\\test.txt"); my @array=<INFO>; close (INFO); foreach $line(@array){ if ($line =~ /$search/) { print "found $line"; sendmail_call_here..to send alert }
        Hello? module names are case-sensitive. win32::OLE doesn't exist

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