I'm trying to do something rediculously easy. I've tried to configure it, and can't get the output I'm looking for. I am trying to monitor a directory for when new file is created. When a new file is created in the directory, the file name(extension included) is saved into a variable. I would like to print this variable to screen for testing purposes as well.

I run the program from my command prompt, and all it does is return nothing to the screen. The code is below. Thanks for any help!

use File::Monitor;   

my $monitor = File::Monitor->new();


 $monitor->watch( {
        name        => 'C:/Path',
        recurse     => 1,
        callback    => {
            files_created => sub {
                my ($name, $event, $change) = @_;
                print "@_";
            }
        }
    } );

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In reply to Please HELP! FILE::MONITOR Configuration by jdlev

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