I am having a problem with my script reading a directory, file by file; if it finds the word arrer in the file, it will send a page to Mike and go onto the next file. As it is now, if the word is in that file more than once, Mike will be paged for every one. I only want Mike to be paged at the most once per file. How would I do this? Below is my code...it works too well! Mike is being paged 4 times for a file that has this arerr in it 4 times and he should only be paged once. I do not know in advance if the word arrer will exist in these log files or not. If it does exist I will not know how many times it will occur. Here is my code!

use File::Copy;
use File::Basename;

@errorcheck = glob ('*.log');
my $error = "ARERR";
my $errorcount = 0;
foreach $logrecord (@errorcheck)
{
    open (LOGFILE, "$logrecord");
    while (<LOGFILE>)
        {
        my $logline = $_;
        if ($logline =~ /$error/)
            {
            $errorcount++;
            }
        }
    if  ($errorcount ne 0)
        {system ('page Mike');}
}
print "$errorcount\n";
close (LOGFILE);

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Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give me!!

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