Re^2: Errors from a simple Package

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Just have your debug logger open up the file for appending, e.g.:


use POSIX qw(strftime);

sub log_msg {
  open(my $fh, ">>", 'log_file.txt') or die "Err: $!";
  printf $fh "[%s] %s\n", strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localtime), sh
+ift;
  close $fh;
}

...

log_msg("Log this message");
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Re^3: Errors from a simple Package by tel2 (Pilgrim) on Mar 17, 2011 at 22:02 UTC
Thanks runrig, Good suggestion - I'm trying that now. I hadn't considered opening the file evertime I want to append it. Probably not a big overhead since I'll probably only be doing it when I'm trying to debug something. But do you know if/how I can share a filehandle (e.g. "DEBUG") between a script and a package? Thanks.	[reply]

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