How about simply choosing the newest log file. Unless you plan on hosting time travellers who make log entries from the future, the current log will always be the newest. I've included a bit of code below that will choose the newest log file from a particular directory based soley upon the filename. It assumes that the log filenames are of the form: *YYYYMMDD*_LOG 
use strict;
use warnings;

my $LOG_DIR = '.';

opendir DH, $LOG_DIR or die;
my @files = sort grep { /\_LOG$/i } readdir DH;
close DH;

my $lastlog = pop @files;
print "lastlog=$lastlog\n";

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In reply to Re: regular expression for log file date ~ questions and ideas ~ by MonkE
in thread regular expression for log file date ~ questions and ideas ~ by perl_geoff

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