I am looking to capture the output of a log file which is being generated by another process into a new text file,initially I just want to be able to see the errors I am getting, but eventually I will want to be able to parse the file as it is being created for specific error messages.
how do I do this will something like this work? taken from example in synopsis from file tail. $name? shouldn't this be defined somewhere?
use File::Tail;
use win32::OLE qw(in);
$file=File::Tail->new("E:\\mibor_timingtest\\mibor\\output.txt");
while (defined($line=$file->read)) {
print "$line";
}
use File::Tail;
$file=File::Tail->new(name=>$name, maxinterval=>300, adjustafter=>7)
+;
while (defined($line=$file->read)) {
open(OUT ">>", "c:\\test.txt");
print(OUT "$line");
}
sub_do_something{
use win32::OLE qw(in);
$search="stuff2searchfor";
open(OUT, "c:\\test.txt");
my @array=<INFO>;
close (INFO);
foreach $line(@array){
if ($line =~ /$search/)
{
print "found $line";
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}
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