Dear monks,

I desperately need divine guidance on accomplishing the following:
1. Read and parse through a log file
2. Remember and store the offset to the last line read
3. Next time in, start reading the log file at the previous offset
I believe I am part way there as i've gained some great snippets from the 'hall of records' at the monestery, however i am getting some unexpected results. I can parse through and start at what i believe to be the appropriate offset but I get an extraline or something when it writes to my datafile. Here is what my code looks like: 
# open the log file
open(REGLOG, $regLog) or die "Can't open logfile: $regLog";

#open data file
open(REGDATA, ">> $regDataFile") or die "can't open the Registration d
+ata file";

# seek to last offset
seek(REGLOG, $offset[0], 1);

while (<REGLOG>) 
{
    chomp; # removing trailing \n
    # code truncated here for brevity.....
        # fields defined through delimiters....

    print REGDATA "$regDate, $regUserName, $regEmail, $regCountry, $re
+gIp, $regRefer, \n";
    
    
}

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The file begins reading from the offset but adds an extra line of ,,,,,, It is as if it is reading an extra line which I thought chomp would remove. Any ideas what I am missing?? Thanks.

In reply to Using Seek to read and parse growing log files by Anonymous Monk

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