Hi, Monks.

First of all i have read Threads: How to share a FileHandle to Write and Threading and File Handles. But i'm still don't know how to make this task:

• I need get some info from web site and save it to log file
• But i must count lines in log file and if it is too big (say 1000 lines) i need to close it and continue with another file (changing suffix: log1.log, log2.log etc.)

Sharing file handle is impossible so i try to write to shared variable. But this doesn't work too (it just create ugly file name \$shared_variable).

How i can do that? Now i'm thinking about one writing thread which will communicate with others and write data to log file and create new one. Can you give me hint how i can do this?

Thanks.
Roman

Update

Thanks to all. Your suggestions really help. I'm using this code right now:

use strict;
use warnings;

use threads;
use Thread::Queue;

use IO::File;

my $q = Thread::Queue->new();

sub worker {
    
    my $counter = 1;
    my $number_of_lines = 0;
    
    open my $fh, ">", "log" . $counter++ . ".txt" or die $!;
    $fh->autoflush(1);
     
    while (1) {
        
        my $thread_id = $q->dequeue();
            
        if ( $number_of_lines >= 20 ) {
            
            close $fh;
            open $fh, ">", "log" . $counter++ . ".txt" or die $!;
            $fh->autoflush(1);
            
            $number_of_lines = 0;
        }
        
        print $fh "This is a very long string containing $thread_id\n"
+;
        $number_of_lines++;
    }
}

threads->new( \&worker )->detach();

my @threads;
foreach my $thread_id ( 0 .. 10 - 1 ) {
    
    my $thread = threads->create( 'start_thread', $thread_id );
    push @threads, $thread;
}
    
foreach my $thread (@threads) {

    $thread->join();
}

sub start_thread {
    
    my ( $thread_id ) = @_;
    
    while (1) {
        
        $q->enqueue($thread_id);
        sleep 1;
    }
}
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