>
>
> What do I need to do in order to use a filehandle that was
> opened earlier in
> a program within a subroutine? I've included an example of
> the code I have
> that is not doing what I would like. Basically, I never get
> any output to
> the file. If I change it so that it doesn't use the
> subroutine when writing
> to the filehandle, it works fine. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
are you sure this code works at all? you have a bunch of things in caps!!
> EXAMPLE CODE
> #########################################
> $logfile = "/var/log/logfile";
> Open(FILE,">>$logfile");
always add error checking.
>
> While(1) {
> &event_log("Logging some data");
> sleep 60;
> };
do you need and endless loop? when I tested, it seems as the loop gets stuck
at the sleep. If you try a different condition in the while loop it will
work:
my $i = 1;
while($i < 10) {
&event_log("Logging some data");
sleep 1;
}
> Sub event_log {
> print FILE "LOG MESSAGE: $_[0]\n";
> };
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