in reply to Re^3: Has McAfee UpdateLog.txt been updated recently
in thread Has McAfee UpdateLog.txt been updated recently

nit: 

print TIMES "$time." . '-' x 63 . "\n\n";'

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And no, I didn't count the dashes one by one. 

$ perl -le 'print tr/-// for "$time.----------------------------------
+-----------------------------\n\n"'

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In addition, try to avoid the backslash hell downstream in the code.

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