Hi Monks,

I am having a little problem with my script. I have written a function edman() that generates a list of people and stores that list in edman.txt. However, I also want to open edman.txt to read the content one by one in another file. I am reading the content of edman.txt sucessfully but by the time I attempt to read the last content of edman.txt, I get an incomplete name. I am assuming that this is because the function edman() has not completely written to edman.txt. Thus I am kindly asking if anyone count show me how to set a dely of 10sec before reading from edman.txt. I have already tried a for loop as shown below but it does not work.

if($search !=1)
{
    GenerateTestFileList();
    print "    \n*********************************\n";
    print "*    ".localtime(time)."    *\n";
    print "    DATABASE.TXT WAS NOT FOUND \n";
    print "    \n*********************************\n\n";
    print "Generating database.txt for Processing.....";
    for($timer = 0; $timer <= 100000000; $timer++)
    {
        if ($timer == 100000000)
        {
        open(DBASE, $path."database.txt") || die ("File does not exist
+, $!\n");
        while(<DBASE>)
        {
           #print ("TIMER is: $timer\n");
               chomp;
           print (LIST "\nTIME: ".localtime(time)."\n");
           print (LIST "$_\n\n");
           open (XFILE, $_) || die ("Can\'t open[$_], $!\n");
           while(<XFILE>)
           {
            chomp;
            print (LIST "$_\n");
           }close XFILE;
        } close LIST;
    }
  }                            
}
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Thanks,

Edman