Thanks Fishmonger, that worked! I do appreciate it. However simple it was.

I may have need of a second request though. Not sure if I should start another thread. But the purpose of this script is to watch a log file, and if it sees an error it emails me. The reason for the timestamp is because I am comparing the time, so If it's an old error I don't get alerted. The problem now is that if it's a continuous error that we are aware of, I still don't want to be alerted every 5-10min(whatever interval i decide to run the script). So I need to write the error it found to a log file. And somehow tell it "if you found this error again, and less than 30min has passed, don't send another alert". Does this make sense?

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