You could re-arrange your code a bit. You are paging every time an ERROR is found (and so you really don't need to be checking $errorcount each time you page either). I suspect you don't really want to print $errorcount each time it is incremented either. You also seem to want to page poor Mike for each file that contains an error, so you need to re-set your $errorcount after each file too. Actually if you are going to page him for each bad file, you might as well tell him the filename too. The loop could become: 
foreach my $logrecord (@errorcheck) {
  my $errorcount;
  open (LOGFILE, $logrecord);
  while (<LOGFILE>) {
    if(/$error/) {
      $errorcount++;
    }
  }
  print "$logrecord: $errorcount\n";
  if($errorcount != 0) {
    system ('page Mike "An error was encountered processing file $logr
+ecord.  Check the HelpDeskLog\ERRORS dir for more information."');
  #last; here if you don't want to bother Mike more than once
}

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You should consider checking that the opens and the system call in fact worked too. Probably the best solution would be to keep a count of all errors, and all files that contained errors, and then just page the long suffering Mike with a message like "$errortotal errors found in $badfiletotal files".

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I'd like to be able to assign to an luser

In reply to Re: Scanning a file for all ERRORs, then sending only one page (break out?) by Albannach
in thread Scanning a file for all ERRORs, then sending only one page (break out?) by rscott212

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