Benjamin Jeeves wrote:
> It still add record that it found on the first pass though the while
> loop to my database what I need is some way to mark my file to the
> point that it get to so it will not find a dupluted of the some
> record as the file grows. ant ideas on how I do that.
It sounds as though you want to keep checking to see if there are
any records appended to the file? If that's the case then you need
a separate scalar variable to keep track of the place in the file
you've got to. Within your main loop, get the position with
$filepos = tell FILEIN;
then you can process the lines with
build_db();
wind back to where you were with
seek FILEIN, $filepos, SEEK_SET;
process them again with
alert();
then you can sleep and revalidate the end of file with
sleep 50;
seek FILEIN, 0, SEEK_CUR;
..and go back to the top of the loop.
HTH,
Rob
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