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You could use File::ReadBackwards to read messages.1 until you reach the point where your previous scan ended. That way you only need to read the lines you need rather than the whole file.

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Re^2: How to read the log rotated file
by kar_thik82 (Novice) on Mar 07, 2013 at 15:02 UTC

    Thanks for your help will the File::ReadBackwards takes the cursor position since i am using tell function to store the current position of the file

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