Masters of Perl, I seek your wisdom yet again. I have a sniplet that successfully takes the last line of file and puts it an array, but now I need to be able to test the last line with the second to the last and so on. I've read up on using seek, File::Backwards, and other methods. I would like to use File::Backwards as it appears to do everything that I need, but I'm not sure how to implement it, and I'm having problems. Thanks in advance! 
# $last_current_schedule is the last line of schedule.txt            
open (CURRENTSCHEDULE, "calendars/$calendar/schedule.txt");
        my $last_current_schedule;
        local $_;
        $last_current_schedule = $_ while <CURRENTSCHEDULE>;
        @last_current_schedule = split(/\t/, $last_current_schedule);
        close CURRENTSCHEDULE;
            
        if($last_current_schedule[1] != $second_last_current_schedule[
+1]) {         $last_current_schedule[0] = $new_default_id;        }
        else {
            # test second, third to last until equal.
            $bw = File::ReadBackwards->new( 'logfile.txt' ) or 
die "can't read 'log_file' $!" ;

                while( defined( $log_line = $bw->readline ) ) {
                print LOGFILE $log_line ;
                    }    
        }

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