The intent of this snippit is to count all of the lines (timestamps) in the file from the bottom up. However it is continually coming back with a count of 27 for a file that has 2-3 lines.. Thank, Jonathan 
$times = 2;
$minutes_threshold = 7200;

$now = time();
$oldest_time = $now - ($minutes_threshold*60);

$user_status_file = "C:/temp/perl_logs/user_status.$user.txt";

open (USF, ">>", $user_status_file) or die "Failed to open User Status
+ File file: $!";
@lines = <USF>;
close USF;

# Now, read through the lines of the file from last (most recent) to f
+irst (oldest)
# and see if n times occured in the last m minutes.

for ( $i=$#lines; $i>=0; $i-- )
{
    $timestamp = $lines[$i];
    chomp $timestamp;
    last if ( $timestamp < $oldest_time );
    $count++;

}
if ( $count > $times )
{
    print ADL "User exceeded threshold! $count \n";
}
print  USF "$now\n";
close USF;

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In reply to count lines, bottom to top by Bennco99

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