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on Apr 08, 2014 at 09:40 UTC ( [id://1081479]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
bendir has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hi monks!
I made a perl program that parses the contents of an xml file into something more readable. The xml files who's filename include a date/time-stamp are arriving to our server every 15mins where they end up in a particular directory. There, the xml files are kept for 2 days until another process deletes them automatically.
My goal is to automate the checking for new files arriving in this directory (every 15mins), copy these new files into my working dir and feed them into the parser program. Like I said, the parser program is ready, what I need now is some way to:
Now for the actual question: Thanks, //Ben
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