The second example of use seems to fit your situation:

use File::Tail;
my $ref=tie *DIAG,"File::Tail",(name=>$name);
while (<DIAG>) {
  # your while (1) loop processing goes here
}

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You open LOGFILE each time thru the outermost while, but close it only if the if statement is true. I would try to make this consistent; perhaps you don't need to close it, now that you have File::Tail to read it.

I believe you will not need the sleep statement anymore. File::Tail keeps track of how often it finds data, and adjusts how often it reads accordingly.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (NASB)

In reply to Re: trying to implement file tail with regular expression by GotToBTru
in thread trying to implement file tail with regular expression by mkhayat

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