Hi Monks,

I'm hoping someone can assist with the following problem. I have a log file that has output written to it all day. I need to check it for a specific error: "OutOfMemory". Once the word "OutOfMemory" is found, I email the line to the necessary parties and then resume looking for the error again. The caveat is that I need to resume checking the log file starting from the line after the last error found. This way I will only page out on new errors found. This is the part i'm struggling with

Below is a code snippet..i only need help with the requirement of how to resume looking for the next error in a file. Any help is greatly appreciated

sub resetFilePos {
        my $fileno = shift;
        my $mtime_curr = (stat($fileno))[9];
        my $mtime_new = (stat($file_name))[9];
        if ($mtime_curr + 5 <= $mtime_new) {
                close($fileno);
                open($fileno, "<",$file_name ) or die "Can't open file
+ $file_name";
        } else {
                seek($fileno,0,1);
        }
        return $fileno;
}


sub process {
        my $file = "/$ENV{HOME}/Error.log";
        eval {
                open ($tail,"<",$file_name) or die "Can't open file $f
+ile_name";
                for(;;) {
                for $line (<$tail>) {
        if ( /OutOfMemoryError/) {
        send_mail($_,$.);
        }
         }
                $tail = resetFilePos($tail);
                }
                close($tail);
        }
}

                process();
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